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Climate hazards like flooding, drought, extreme storms, and increased precipitation pose significant challenges to communities across Canada's diverse and varied landscapes. While these challenges are experienced differently across regions, they can threaten the reliability of municipal infrastructure and the vital services they deliver to residents and businesses.
It is important that local governments prioritize and integrate climate planning into their municipal decision-making processes so that they can guarantee the efficiency of infrastructure for current and future climate impacts.
Learn about the importance of integrating climate action into asset management planning with the Building climate resilience with asset management course.
This free, 10-module course is self-paced, with each module taking approximately 30-45 minutes to complete. It is designed for municipal practitioners from communities of all sizes, who are already familiar with the basic concepts of climate resilience and are looking to take their planning to the next level.
In this course, you’ll learn about:
- How weather and climate change impact regions, communities and people
- A framework for building climate resilience with asset management
- How setting levels of service fits into municipal climate resilience
- How to embed climate resilience strategies into your community’s plans and processes
What peers are saying
“My first experience with BCRAM was piloting it in Winter 2025 in CIV8150 Municipal Engineering at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador with a group of Civil Engineering undergraduate students using a graded discussion forum. Given the conversational nature of the content, it is well suited to prompt real-world discussion around the issues of incorporating climate resilience into municipal decision making. I am now developing a new approach to using BCRAM in ENGI9799 Sustainable Infrastructure Management which is a required graduate level course in our Master of Sustainable Infrastructure Engineering program. In ENGI9799, students will be exposed to a 12-week municipal operations simulation involving a variety of complex operational issues typically experienced in rural municipalities. During these weeks, BCRAM will be an invaluable learning tool to help students gain an appreciation of how municipal teams can collaborate to improve sustainable infrastructure management.”
-Brian Peach, P. Eng, MCIP, CAMP, ENV SP, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador: Project Engineer - Community Based Partnerships, Project Engineer - Harsh Environment Research Facility Civil Engineering Instructor