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2. Introduction
The Canadian Hazus User Group (usually) meets on the third Wednesday of each month to share knowledge on natural hazard risk assessment and the application of the Hazus loss estimation software in Canada. Natural Resources Canada’s National-Scale Geohazard Risk Project of the Public Safety Geoscience Program supports the forum. Today’s meeting will be facilitated by Malaika Ulmi The meeting materials are posted on

3. Agenda Meet and greet as we connect Training, resources and events
Round table
Presentation: Aboriginal Resilience Index– Laurie Pearce
Questions and Discussion

4. Hazus Training
EMI courses at Questions to
Hazus online course flyer and handouts at
Esri online courses search for Hazus

5. Resources
Order a copy of Hazus Canada, see upcoming events, download resources and meeting material, find events, ask a Hazus question, and add content
FEMA Hazus User Group calls on iTunes, search Hazus Community, or join calls by requesting add from
and LinkedIn for Canadian and US HUG groups and resources
Hazus solutions page:

6. Resources
Global best practices: UN ISDR and
Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction:
Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities initiative:
Canadian Risk and Hazards Network
HazNet, the magazine of the Canadian Risks and Hazards Network:

7. Resources
Resource Guide on Resilience – A work in progress, this guide from the International Risk Governance Council collects resources on resilience in the context of risk management for scientists and practitioners. The contents—searchable by concept, approach, or discipline—look at integrating, developing, and measuring resilience for governments and decision makers with an emphasis developing indicators and quantifying effectiveness.

8. Resources
The annual report from the Institute for Environment and Human Society at United Nations University looks at a nation’s exposure to risk and multiplies it by its vulnerability to come up with an overall ranking of how likely a country is to suffer from the impacts of disaster. This year, the report puts a special emphasis on critical infrastructure and the role it places in shaping disaster risk. The report finds that infrastructure—and the ability to maintain it—greatly affect a country’s ability to recover from disasters.

9. Resources
The Making of a Riskier Future: How Our Decisions are Shaping Future Disaster Risk - Report by the Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction argues that individuals and policy makers need to do more to avoid the main drivers of risk—but can’t do so effectively until better way of assessing the dynamic nature of risk is developed.
Canadian National Flood Guidelines Draft Document- A series of 8 handbooks being developed by NRCan.

10. Resources
Coastal Cities at Risk workshop presentations/proceedings from recent Vancouver event available at The program is just finishing, and representatives from the participating cities of Vancouver, Bangkok, Lagos and Manila were figuring out the state of climate hazards in those places, how those climate hazards would change, what the implications would be for disaster potential, how to understand potential losses, and how to do something to increase resilience.
National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health Storm, Hurricane and Flood Resources – a compilation including recommendations for emergency responders, assessment tools for hospitals and shelters, information on disaster cleanup hazards, and general advice on everything from motor vehicle safety to identifying human remains.

11. Events
Free webinar: Building Codes – Why They Matter, October 5, 2016,
World Water-Tech North America, Toronto, ON, October 18-20, 2016,
Emergency Preparedness and Business Continuity Conference, Vancouver, BC, November 7-10, 2016,
Hazus Users Conference, Charleston, SC, November 7-9, 2016,
Disaster Preparedness Forum 2016, Bangkok, Thailand, November 10, 2016,

12. Events
CRHNet Annual Symposium, Montreal, QC, November 23-25, 2016,
Disaster Risk Reduction, Response, and Sustainable Reconstruction: Capacity Building for Equitable Planning and Development, Boston, MA, November 8, 2018,
CatIQ’s Canadian Catastrophe Conference (C4), Toronto, ON, February 1-3, 2017,
Fifth Regional Platform for the Americas, Montreal, QC, March 7-9, 2017,

13. Roundtable Introduce yourself
Any news, projects, ideas, suggestions, upcoming presentations or conferences of interest …

14. Aboriginal Resilience Index Laurie Pearce
Presentation:
Aboriginal Resilience Index
Laurie Pearce

15. Wednesday, October 19, 2016 malaika.ulmi@canada.ca
Next CanHUG meeting is
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
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