CREW - Hamilton's Community Response to Extreme Weather

City of Hamilton has declared Climate Change emergency in 2019. City of Hamilton needs to ensure that they can identify and prioritize neighborhoods based on how resilient/climate change ready these communities are. The goal is to provide them with tools and resources to make them future ready for Climate Change.

Goal(s):

  • Collect and centralized background data on a variety of environmental, social and economic indicators.

  • Complete a community neighborhood workshop to provide neighborhood consultation.

  • Conduct 2-4 neighborhood walk-about and neighborhood audits.

  • Complete detailed Sustainable Neighborhood Action Plan Final design of how a sustainable neighborhood would look like.

City Staff: Trevor lmhoff, Senior Project Manager - Air Quality & Climate Change, Healthy and Safe Communities

Faculty: Zobia Jawed, McMaster University

Course: TBA

Project Location: City-Wide

Strategic Priorities: Clean and Green, Healthy and Safe Communities

For more information on this project, check out the Project Agreement below!

Project Agreement