Introduction to climate risk assessment
Summary of the activity
This training activity presents the objectives of risk assessment, an important step in the climate change adaptation process, as well as useful methods and tools for carrying out its three stages: risk identification, analysis, and evaluation.
General objective
Gain a general understanding of risk assessment
What you’ll learn
Explain the relationship between risk, hazard, exposure, vulnerability, consequence and likelihood
Name each of the steps in risk assessment and their objectives
Identify the tools used to perform risk assessment
Duration and format
In French only
About 2 hours
Lecture with question period
Real-time
Online
By registration only
Free
Before taking this training activity, we strongly recommend that you consult the guide Climate change adaptation planning:
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Presenter
Sonia Hachem holds a PhD in Geographic Sciences from Laval University. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the mapping of permafrost zones from satellite images in the circum-Arctic zone with Laval University, Waterloo University and the European Space Agency. She also holds a degree in Higher Education Pedagogy. She worked as a geography teacher at the college level for 6 years.
At Ouranos since 2019, she joigned the Knowledge Transfer andTraining team in 2020.
