Community Planning in Northern Regions

Standard CAN/BNQ 9701-500
Risk-Based Approach for Community Planning in Northern Regions ꟷ Requirements and Guidance

Canada’s North is warming about two to three times faster than the world as a whole and the effects of this rapid warming, such as permafrost degradation and melting sea ice, are putting communities and infrastructure in this territory at risk.

In response, the Standards Council of Canada (SCC), through the Northern Infrastructure Standards Initiative (NISI), supports and encourages the development and implementation of standards to support the development of climate change resilient infrastructure. In that context, the Bureau de normalisation du Québec (BNQ) has developed the standard CAN/BNQ 9701-500 Risk-based Approach for Community Planning in Northern Regions ꟷ Requirements and Guidance, which specifies the minimum requirements to produce land development suitability (LDS) maps with particular consideration given to climate change within a risk management framework.

LDS maps are a valuable tool for managing current infrastructure and identifying areas at risk in response to climate changes: for example, increases in air temperature and precipitation affect ground temperature, and therefore the stability of permafrost. As a result, many northern communities must deal with these effects (erosion of their land and increasing flooding. Taking these processes or events into account and analyzing the susceptibilities of the land to these processes or events are therefore decisive in drawing up LDS maps that will ensure the sustainable development of this territory.

It is important to note that the standard places community engagement at the centre of the LDS maps development process, at every stage.

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12818	ANG	CAN/BNQ 9701-500	Risk-Based Approach for Community Planning in Northern Regions - Requirements and Guidance
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12817	FRN	CAN/BNQ 9701-500	Approche axée sur le risque relativement à l'urbanisme dans les régions nordiques - Exigences et lignes directrices
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Standards committee members

Number of committee members: 15

Mr. Lukas Arenson	BGC Engineering
Ms. Heather Auld	Dillon Consulting
Ms. Marie-Pier Breton	Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation (MAMH) - Direction des analyses et stratégies en habitation - Sous-ministériat à l'habitation
Ms. Sara Brown	Northwest Territories Association of Communities (NWTAC)
Mr. Philip Christensen	Government of Yukon, Highways and Public Works
Ms. Marijo Cyr	Relations Couronne-Autochtones et Affaires du Nord Canada
Mr. Stan Dueck	District of Sooke - Building Safety
Ms. Véronique Gilbert	Administration régionale Kativik
Mr. Nigel Goldup	Tetra Tech Canada
Mr. Chris Hewitt	Department of Municipal and Community Affairs, Government of the Northwest Territories
Ms. Sara Holzman	Government of Nunavut
Ms. Margaret Kralt	Dillon Consulting
Mr. Aron Piamsalee	Stantec Consulting
Mr. Brian Sieben	Government of the Northwest Territories - Climate Change and Air Quality Unit
Mr. Westly Steed	Environnement et ressources naturelles, gouvernement des territoires du Nord-Ouest

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