Combatting Canada’s Rising Flood Costs: Natural infrastructure is an underutilized option

The document asserts that natural infrastructure is an underutilized tool for mitigating flood risk in Canada. It highlights that flood risks are increasing from fluvial, pluvial, and coastal sources and calls for a framework to guide the assessment and selection of natural infrastructure over traditional grey infrastructure.

• Flood risk in Canada is increasing from three primary sources: fluvial (rivers and lakes), pluvial (intense rainfall in urban areas), and coastal (storm surges and rising sea levels).
• Government efforts to mitigate flood risk are consistent with and support their fiduciary duty to maintain good governance.
• There is a need for a framework to guide decision-makers in choosing natural infrastructure solutions and methods to compare them against grey infrastructure in terms of risk mitigation utility.

APA

International Institute for Sustainable Development (2018). Combatting Canada’s Rising Flood Costs: Natural infrastructure is an underutilized option. https://www.iisd.org/publications/report/combatting-canadas-rising-flood-costs-natural-infrastructure-underutilized

Chicago

International Institute for Sustainable Development. Combatting Canada’s Rising Flood Costs: Natural infrastructure is an underutilized option. 2018. https://www.iisd.org/publications/report/combatting-canadas-rising-flood-costs-natural-infrastructure-underutilized.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{internationalinstituteforsustainabledevelopment2018combatting, author = {{International Institute for Sustainable Development}}, title = {{Combatting Canada’s Rising Flood Costs: Natural infrastructure is an underutilized option}}, institution = {International Institute for Sustainable Development}, year = {2018}, month = sep, url = {https://www.iisd.org/publications/report/combatting-canadas-rising-flood-costs-natural-infrastructure-underutilized}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }