Session Details

Big Moves to Reduce Risk and Build Resilience in Southwest BC. With Ignite talks, and Local Music!

14 September 2020

Murray Journeay, Natural Resources Canada. Navigating Pathways of Disaster Resilience in BC.

Tamsin Lyle, Ebbwater Consulting. An evolution in flood management.

Jessica Shoubridge, UR Organizing Committee. URBC 2020 Kickoff.

Webinar Format

Multi-format Event

Presentation, Dialogue, Art

Featuring

Laurie Johnson & music from the Spiritual Warriors

as well as Ignite talks from:

Andrew Pape-Salmon, Building Safety Standards Branch, Province of BC (Flood Hazard, Risk and Risk Reduction in the Lower Mainland Towards a Regional Flood Strategy)
Steve Litke, Fraser Basin Council (Flood Hazard, Risk and Risk Reduction in the Lower Mainland Towards a Regional Flood Strategy)
James Stiver, Metro Vancouver
Murray Journeay, Natural Resources Canada/Geological Survey of Canada (Black Swans over Vancouver)
Sahar Safaie, DRR Pathways and Sage Consulting

With

Jessica Shoubridge (UR Organizing Committee), Murray Journeay (NRCan and UR Organizing Committee) and Tamsin Lyle (Ebbwater), hosted by Susanna Haas Lyons (UR Organizing Committee)

Description

This session will set the context for the 2020 symposium, including looking at the ‘where have we come from, why is this work important, and what are the risk reduction ‘big moves’’ that the symposium sessions can further explore that support pathways to a resilient 2050 in the Lower Mainland and Georgia Basin. Ignite talks will be given by representatives from each initiative-in focus session that will provide an overview of the content to come in the September and October events series.

Tap into the context for this year’s URBC symposium, including a look at the global, national and regional research and practices shaping this field.

The last portion of the kick off will feature “fireside chats” to connect with leading colleagues, without an agenda.

Be engaged. Be entertained. Connect with colleagues.

Parliamentary Secretary for Gender Equity, Mitzi Dean - Speaker"

Mitzi Dean was elected as MLA for Esquimalt-Metchosin in 2017, and was appointed the Parliamentary Secretary for Gender Equity in February 2018. Parliamentary Secretary Dean grew up in southeast England and has spent the last 30 years helping vulnerable people. Before moving to the Victoria area in 2005, Mitzi Dean served as a national development manager for children's services with the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the U.K.'s largest child protection charity. Prior to that, she worked in child protection social work and community-based social services across Great Britain for more than 20 years. She also volunteered at a Romanian orphanage and a transition house in the U.K. providing refuge for women experiencing relationship violence. Most recently, she served as executive director of the Pacific Centre Family Services Association. PS Dean lives in Metchosin with her partner and daughter.
Robin Cox, Ph.D. Royal Roads University"

Robin is the Program Head of the graduate programs in Climate Action Leadership at Royal Roads University (RRU) and a Professor in the Disaster and Emergency Management Master of Arts program. As Director of the ResilienceByDesign ILab (RbD) at RRU, Robin leads multiple action research and educational initiatives focused on resilience and enhancing the capacity of youth and adults to address the complex and intersecting challenges of climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction.
Emily Dicken, Ph.D. First Nations Health Authority"

Dr. Emily Dicken has worked as a practitioner in the field of emergency management since 2006, spending the first twelve years of her career with the province of BC working in health emergency management and then for Emergency Management BC where she held the role of Director, First Nation Coordination. Emily is now the Director of Emergency Management at First Nations Health Authority. Beyond her work at FNHA, Emily pursues academic interests with a central focus on understanding colonialism as an unnatural and enduring disaster impacting Indigenous communities. When not working, Emily can be found enjoying time in the outdoors with her husband Jeff and their two young sons, Keegan and Bowen.
Jackie Yip, Ph.D. Natural Resources Canada"

Jackie Yip is a Research Scientist within the Public Safety Geoscience Program at Natural Resources Canada, where she is leading research efforts in developing best practices and new methods for understanding flood risk and community resilience and recovery. Her research interest lies at the intersect of climate adaptation, disaster risk modelling, and decision-making, and specializes in predictive modelling and data-visualization.
Laurie Johnson, Ph.D. Laurie Johnson Consulting I Research"

Laurie is an internationally-recognized urban planner specializing in disaster recovery and catastrophe risk management, and based in the San Francisco Bay Area. For over 30 years, she has combined her unique blend of professional practice and research to help communities address the complex urban challenges posed by natural hazards and disasters. Much of her post-disaster recovery efforts are captured in her recent book, After Great Disasters: An In-Depth Analysis of How Six Countries Managed Community Recovery (2017). She is President of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute and on the Board of Directors of the Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative and the Advisory Board of the Global Earthquake Model (GEM). She was also inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners (FAICP) in 2018. She holds a Doctorate in Informatics from Kyoto University, Japan, as well as a Master of Urban Planning and Bachelors of Science in Geophysics, both from Texas A&M University.
Sahar Safaie (Moderator). Sage On Earth Consulting

Sahar Safaie is the founder and principal consultant of Sage on Earth Consulting Ltd., based in North Vancouver. The niche of her expertise and services is to enhance the use of disaster and climate risk information in designing resilience policies, investments and programs. She has more than fifteen years of diverse experiences in BC and internationally including at United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), Global Earthquake Model, the World Bank, and Risk Management Solutions. Sahar has lead development of two of the Sendai Framework implementation guidelines on National Disaster Risk Assessment and National Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies.