Commission for Environmental Cooperation

Workshops on methods for assessing the costs of floods

As part of the CEC’s 2019-2020 project, Costing Floods and Other Extreme Events, this workshop  is to convene experts from Indigenous, research and academic organizations, to discuss the incorporation of Indigenous perspectives in a proposed standardized North American methodology  for costing floods and to evaluate   its potential application to the assessment of the costs of cascading hazards (for example, fires > floods > landslides).

July 14, 2020 – Indigenous Perspectives on Costing Floods

This workshop will convene experts from Indigenous, research and academic organizations, to discuss the incorporation of Indigenous perspectives in the methods for costing floods.

July 15, 2020 – Methodological Approaches to Multi-hazard Assessments

This workshop will convene experts from Indigenous, research and academic organizations to evaluate the proposed standardized North American methodology for costing floods, and its potential application to the assessment of the costs of cascading hazards (for example, fires > floods > landslides).