Environmental disaster management in the Great Lakes Basin

Session: Poster session

Abdullah Alotaibi, Ryerson University, [email protected]

Abstract

Jurisdictions around the world are grappling with how to deal with environmental uncertainty and develop coordinated, structured approaches to anticipate, avoid or respond to complex environmental disasters. To what extent is the Great Lakes Basin prepared for and does it have the capacity to manage environmental disasters? What do early warning systems and disaster management systems focused on environmental threats have in common? Does the Great Lakes Early Warning System need to incorporate knowledge from disaster preparedness, disaster mitigation and disaster management scholarship and practice? Are there any “lessons learned” and “best practices” that can be gleaned from disaster management that might be valuable as a Great Lakes Early Warning System is being developed? Can the Great Lakes adapt other international early warning systems such as Transboundary Early Warning System for the Danube River in Europe? This system was launched by the ICPDR in 2008 for forecasting Danube floods and to provide early flood warnings. 

This poster presentation will provide an overview of a Master’s research project that explores these questions.

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environmental policy

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ecosystem forecasting

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Disaster Management

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Early Warning Systems