Research

Climate change & housing system governance in Canada

This projects seeks to understand how Canada’s housing system shapes vulnerability to climate change and influences adaptation responses. It addresses critical gaps in our knowledge about housing and Canada’s vulnerability to a changing climate, particularly the relationship between housing tenure, debt, and risk exposure, and the influence of housing system design on adaptation policy choices.

Assessing adaptation progress in the Canadian electricity sector

This project examines how monitoring, evaluation, and assessment can support adaptation planning and decision-making in electricity companies. It aims to improve our understanding of how climate risk assessment and disclosure impacts decision-making, and inform current organizational practices around monitoring and evaluation.

Towards a Carbon Governance Living Lab

This project is focused on understanding how living labs can contribute to community-based decarbonization efforts. It aims to develop a roadmap for a university-based carbon governance living lab that connects academic research spaces with community groups working on the zero-carbon energy transition.

Global Adaptation Mapping Initiative

The Global Adaptation Mapping Initiative (GAMI) is a collective global effort to systematically gather and synthesize literature on climate change adaptation.  GAMI is reviewing thousands of peer-reviewed articles to synthesize empirical evidence on adaptation progress. This initiative was developed to provide synthesis results to inform the ongoing Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th Assessment Report (AR6).

Principal investigator: Dr. Lea Berrang-Ford

Disability rights and adaptation

This project is examining the adaptive capacity of persons with disabilities to climate change from a human rights perspective. This includes processes of inclusion or exclusion of persons with disabilities in adaptation governance, the extent to which current adaptation policies and laws recognize and affect the rights of persons with disabilities, and how rights-based strategies can enhance the adaptive capacity of persons with disability in a changing climate.

Principal investigator: Dr. Sébastien Jodoin