Amplifying Montréal s Urban Resilience Building Process Through Collaborative Work with Academia Irène Cloutier and Justine Cotton, Bureau de la résilience, Ville de Montréal CRHNet Conference 2018 Dealing with Uncertainty : Innovation & Practice Vancouver, November 1, 2018 1
Montréal s Resilience City Strategy Strategy Release : June 2018 First Canadian City to release it s Resilience Strategy Part of 100 Resilient Cities Initiative pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation AN ALERT, PROACTIVE AND INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY ACTING ON SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES 2
Montréal s Resilience City Strategy Four Orientations for a Resilient Montréal : 1.Support a united and safe community 2.Protect our living environment 3.Maintain a diversified and innovative economy 4.Promote integrated governance in the service of the community 30 actions developed in collaboration with : 46 external partners, 14 central services, 7 boroughs 3
Developing Montréal s Resilience Strategy MOBILIZING THE POPULATION Perception survey / summer 2016 - more than 1,600 citizens responding RESILIENCE PERCEPTION OF MONTRÉAL MAIN RESILIENCE CHALLENGES Aging Basic Needs / Social Infrastructures Cohesion / and Urban Mobility Communication with Citizens Emergency Management / Climate Change / Public Health
Developing Montréal s Resilience Strategy MOBILIZING STAKEHOLDERS RESILIENCE PROGRAM WORKSHOP / JANUARY 2016 WORKING COMMITTEES / 2016-2017 STEERING COMMITTEE / 2016-2017 PRELIMINARY RESILIENCE ASSESSMENT / 2017 PHASE 2 WORK / 2017-2018 Resilience Program Workshop, January 201
Developing Montréal s Resilience Strategy Montréal a University City Home to 11 university institutions with over 170,000 students More than 150 centres and 1,500 institutes active in research & development Upwards of 5,600 university researcher integrating knowledge and research to guide process and evidence-based decision making Descriptive analytical evidence implementation and Impact evidence Public attitudes and understanding of risk Economic evidence (cost-benefit/cost effectiveness, including environmental and social aspects) 6
Input from Academia at Ville de Montréal Exemples of actions in the Resilience Strategy Rethink Risks Communication to Citizens Social Capital and Community Resilience Flood Mitigation and Gray / Green Infrastructures Resilient Development of the Smart City 7
Rethink Risk Communication to Citizens Partners : Université de Montréal, ministère de la Sécurité publique du Québec 8
Social Capital and Community Resilience Partners : Building Migrant Resilience in Cities Network Concordia University / UQAM and others Cité ID Living Lab on Urban Resilience / ENAP, Maison de l innovation sociale and others Combined work with Social Diversity Department and McGill University 9
Flood Mitigation and gray / green infrastructures Partners : Kheops International Research Consortium on the Governance of Large Infrastructure Projects Ouranos Consortium on Regional Climatology and Adaptation to Climate Change Work in collaboration with City Departments (Planning, Environment, Water, Infrastructure ) 10
Resilient Development of the Smart City Partners : Smart Cybersecurity Knowledge Mobilization Network (SERENE-RISC Hosted by Université de Montréal) Work in collaboration with IT Department and Smart City/ Urban Innovation Lab 11
Input from Academia at Ville de Montréal Opportunities Urban Resilience emerging research in many fields Building a convincing case for prevention / adaptation measures Lessons learned Clearly identify project scope again, and again, and again Data sharing remains time consuming and needs to be well framed Challenges Obtaining tangible, measurable and applicable research results Creating a win-win situation between all partners 12
Amplifying Montréal s Urban Resilience Building Process Through Collaborative Work with Academia Questions? https://resilient.montreal.ca https://www.facebook.com/resilientmontreal/ 13