D1 Local resilience
Natural disasters create experiences that may influence, at a personal and organizational scale, our perception of what urban resilience means. This session will allow participants to understand urban resilience as a multi-scale transformational process and will explore ways to collectively develop tools to cope with the challenges triggered by the climate crisis.
Moderator
Ewa Jackson
Managing Director, ICLEI Canada Office
Speakers
Brigid Shea
County Commissioner, Austin, Travis County, Texas, United States
Barbara Turley-McIntye
Vice-President, Sustainability and Citizenship, The Co-operators, Canada
Madeleine Redfern
Mayor, City of Iqaluit, Canada
Nicolas Milot
Conseiller en recherche – Environnement – Direction de la planification du territoire métropolitain research consultant – environment – department of metropolitain territory planning, Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal, Canada