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Applying Lessons from Home Flood Protection to Enhance Residential Earthquake Preparedness: A Canadian Perspective

This report draws on lessons learned from the Intact Centre’s Home Flood Protection Program and shows how approaches to mobilize flood protection at the residential level may be applied to reduce earthquake risk, for homes in Canada’s major earthquake zones. Both floods and earthquakes share similarities in terms of risk and ability to prepare; risk can be reduced through proactive action. The report profiles three principal mechanisms that have the potential to motivate protective behavior for earthquake:
  • Developing and circulating an earthquake protection infographic,
  • Engaging with professional associations in the residential sector, and
  • Personalizing risk preparedness through door-to-door outreach.
The findings offer practical approaches which may strengthen earthquake risk management and guide homeowners toward greater preparedness.
 

 

About the Intact Centre

The Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation (Intact Centre) is an applied research centre with a national focus within the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo. The Intact Centre works with homeowners, communities, governments and businesses to identify, and reduce, the impacts of extreme weather and climate change.

To this end, the centre is an incubator of new adaptation ideas, conducting research, knowledge mobilization and promoting initiatives aimed at de-risking the negative impacts of a changing climate and extreme weather, such as extreme heat, wildfire and flooding.

The establishment of the Intact Centre was made possible through the leadership, vision, and generosity of Intact Financial Corporation, a long-time partner and donor to the University of Waterloo particularly supporting climate adaptation. In November 2015, Intact announced a gift directed in support of the centre’s mission and goals.

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