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The Land & Infrastructure Resiliency Assessment (LIRA) Project
Goal: Provide decision makers at the watershed scale with support tools required for climate change/variability vulnerability and adaptation assessments.
Support tools: “How to” guide for future pilot/watershed studies containing detailed methodologies and lessons learned from the research (version 1.0 available)

With UBC facilities management, estimate the potential losses at the University of British Columbia Campus from various model earthquake scenarios using the Hazus-MH loss estimation software and other evaluation tools developed by the UBC Earthquakes Engineering group. The analysis uses detailed information about the campus structures and infrastructure.

Contact: Dr. Carlos Ventura at ventura@civil.ubc.ca

Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) is a decade-long research programme co-sponsored by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the International Social Science Council (ISSC), and the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR). It is a global, multi-disciplinary approach to dealing with the challenges brought by natural disasters, mitigating their impacts, and improving related policy-making mechanisms.

Under the NRCan Public Safety Geoscience Program.