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CRHNet October 2010
How do Emergency Measure Organizations
use GeoHazard Information to Encourage
Canadians to “Be Prepared”?
P. Jane Wynne
Outline
 The program
 The project (mandate and expertise)
 The fence and the managerial challenge
 The survey/inventory
 The results from the survey – next steps
 Conclusions
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Public Safety Geoscience
The program outcome :
The Risks of Natural Hazards are
Reduced
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NRCan’s Hazards Mandate
Earthquakes
Space Weather
Landslides
Tsunamis
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Volcanoes
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NRCan’s Hazards Mandate
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Qualitative Risk Function
Risk = Hazard x Vulnerability
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Public Safety Geoscience
projects
Hazard Assessment:
 National Guidelines for Natural Hazard Assessment (and
Mitigation)
Peter Bobrowsky, GSC Northern
 National-Scale Hazard Assessments
Garry Rogers, GSC Pacific
 Targeted Hazard Assessments in Western, Eastern and
Northern Canada
Kelin Wang, GSC Pacific; Greg Brooks, GSC Northern;
David Boteler, Canadian Hazard Information Service
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Public Safety Geoscience
projects
Vulnerability:
 Increasing Personal Preparedness for Natural
GeoHazards
Jane Wynne, GSC Pacific
 National Guidelines for Natural Hazard Assessment
(and Mitigation)
Peter Bobrowsky, GSC Northern
Risk:
 Quantitative Risk Assessments
Miro Nastev, GSC Quebec
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The Project
Increasing Personal Preparedness
for GeoHazards
The challenge:
 Preparedness is not in our departmental
mandate
 Increasing personal preparedness involves
changing peoples’ behaviour (social
marketing) – not our realm of expertise
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Managerial challenge:
Objective:
Ensure that public safety and emergency
management organizations have the geohazard
information they require to motivate Canadians
to effectively prepare for natural hazard events.
To meet this objective:
 Evaluate how geohazard knowledge and products
are currently used in EMO product design and
program implementation
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The Fence
Natural
Resources
Canada
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Provinces
and
Territories
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The Cascade Model
Natural
Resources
Canada
Provinces
and
Territories
EMO’s
Municipalities
Regional districts
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Citizen
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The Survey
Questionnaire to find out:
 how Provincial and Territorial Emergency
Management Organizations currently use
geohazard information
 where they get that information
 what other geohazard information do they
need to motivate Canadians to effectively
prepare (for geohazard events)
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The Survey
 Public Safety Canada helped identify the
Provincial and Territorial contacts
 The survey was sent by email in Nov 2009
 Sample answers provided
 12/13 responses received by February 2009
“Do you currently use any geohazard information
in your outreach products or programs?”
Yes 5 more questions
No
3 more questions
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The Survey
Homework: website review
Observations:
 NRCan information and links to NRCan geohazard
sites well placed in PSC’s website and EMBC
website
 All Provincial/Territorial EMO sites link to PSC
website
 PQ children’s section has excellent information on
GeoHazards
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The Survey - results
Geohazard information is currently used
sporadically in outreach and education products
and programs
 Don’t know what information is available
 Very small budgets and limited manpower to
develop local products
 GeoHazards are not perceived to be “top of
mind” threats
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June 23, M 5 Val-des-Bois earthquake
Landslide triggered by the
earthquake,
Mulgrave-et-Derry, QC
(photo Didier Perret)
Damage in Toronto
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The Survey - results
 EMO’s are interested in Natural Hazards
 tornadoes
 floods
 droughts
 avalanches
Outside of NRCan’s GeoHazard Five
(Earthquakes, Landslides, Space Weather, Tsunamis
and Volcanoes)
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The Survey - results
 Interest in wild fires and permafrost,
NRCan has expertise (outside of the Public Safety
Geoscience Program)
 There are regional geohazard experts in provincial
ministries
(e.g. Ministry of Transportation in Quebec or
Ministry of Natural Resources in NL for landslides)
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The Survey – next steps
 Provide each agency with a detailed list of currently
available geohazard resources
 website URL’s,
 PDF’s of Geofact sheets,
 lists of subject matter experts
(Request from BC, ON, NT, BC, AB, SK, MA, NS)
Market what we have!
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Atlas
of Canada
• Earthquakes
• Floods
• Forest Fires
• Landslides
• Space Weather
• Storm Surges
• Volcanoes
• Tsunamis
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Geofacts
• in French
and English
• 9 titles
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Hazard Experts
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The Survey – next steps
 Identify available resources and subject matter
experts in permafrost degradation and wild fires
and include those in our information package.
(Request from NU, AB and SK)
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The Survey – next steps
With some resources we could:
 Develop region-specific event summaries with
photos (suggested by NS, SK, Quebec, and YK)
 Prepare public education material for space
weather, geomagnetic storms and geomagnetic
forecasting (PEI, NT)
 Host virtual web conferences for EMO’s with
geohazard experts - a get to know the experts
session (who to call on for what information)
(Suggested by BC)
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The Survey - Conclusions
 NRCan is not the only source of geohazard
information in Canada
 Work with other federal departments to ensure
EMO’s have the natural hazard information they
need (Federal Natural Hazards Club?)
 Continue to work with PSC supporting their
“Know the Risk” piece
 Municipalities have the most direct contact with
citizens – what geohazard info do they use/need?
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The Cascade Model
Natural
Resources
Canada
Provinces
and
Territories
EMO’s
Municipalities
Regional districts
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Citizen
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Thank you
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