Resilient communities integrate climate considerations and strategies into every part of their municipality’s daily activities. Understanding strategies for managing climate impacts to municipal assets and levels of service is essential to meaningful climate action.
Discover low-cost and effective strategies and tools to help your municipality build the resilience of services through the assets and programs you already have, while also reducing your carbon footprint.
FCM developed the suite of resources below for municipal staff who play a role in operations and maintenance activities and want to know how to strengthen assets and safeguard municipal services against extreme climate impacts.
First read the handbook and complete the worksheet to identify priorities for your municipality. Next, download and review our six easy-to-understand factsheets, created to help you identify low-carbon climate resilience opportunities by asset type.
Part one: Discover strategies and tools to adapt your existing assets
Read the Operations & maintenance for climate resilience: Six strategies for your municipality handbook.
The handbook will help you:
- Build the case for low-carbon resilience in your municipality
- Identify strategies to build resilience by adapting your existing municipal operations and maintenance activities
- Prioritize climate change adaptation options that align with your community’s needs
- Embed equity into your operations and maintenance practices
- Analyze and manage data with an aim to enhance climate change resilience
- Discover ways to develop organizational knowledge and skill to support on-going decision-making
- Apply a climate lens to asset renewal decisions
- Analyze where to achieve the most value out of your infrastructure investments
- Recognize opportunities to prioritize green infrastructure
Not sure how to get started? Download this worksheet to identify opportunities in your municipality to apply the strategies described in the handbook.
Part two: Opportunities for action – by asset class
After identifying strategies and tools to identify and prioritizing adaptation options, read our six factsheets. These factsheets provide specific examples of actions you can take to adapt operations and maintenance practices by service area.
Explore each factsheet to discover
- A common list of municipal assets that belong to each asset class
- Climate hazards and the physical risk to asset and levels of services
- Actions your local government can take to better manage risk by adapting to the impacts of climate change or reducing GHG emissions that contribute to climate change
Download the factsheets
This resource was developed by the Municipal Asset Management Program(MAMP)
MAMP was designed to help Canadian municipalities strengthen their infrastructure investment decisions based on reliable data and sound asset management practices. This eight-year, $110-million program was funded by the Government of Canada and delivered by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. It was implemented in partnership with municipal, provincial and territorial associations and other key stakeholders.
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