Background
Environment and Climate Change Canada has provided funding to the 
Coastal Zone Canada Association (CZCA) to lead the development of a Coastal Resilience Framework for the Canadian Great Lakes. The CZCA have contracted Zuzek Inc., Dr. Lawrence Hildebrand, World Maritime University, and Linda Mortsch, University of Waterloo to assist with the framework development. This initiative will require an ‘all of society approach’ to develop and implement the framework to increase the resilience of our coastal communities, beaches, wetlands, and nearshore ecosystem. In short, the framework must be developed by everyone, for everyone, and implemented by everyone with lands, rights, jurisdiction, and interest along the Great Lakes coast. Further information on the scope of the framework, goals and outcomes, partners, and resources is provided below.
Resilience Definition for the Framework
The capacity of social, economic, environmental, and physical systems in coastal areas to cope with a hazardous event, trend, or disturbance, responding and reorganizing in ways that maintain their essential function, identity, and structure, while also building capacity for learning, innovative and equitable adaptation, and transformation.
Think Tank Members (as of March 31, 2023)
| Bev Rose, DFO | Neil Fisher, DFO | Lisa Fowler, DFO |
| Luca Cargnelli, ECCC | Jody McKenna, ECCC | Jocelyn Sherwood, ECCC |
| Heather Braun, ECCC | Greg Mayne, ECCC | Mary Bellissimo, ECCC |
| Julia KohHatchAyyoub, ECCC | Mary-Ann Wilson, NRCan | Kelsea Walker, NRCan |
| Lindsay Rodger, PC | Scott Parker, PC | Steve Marklevitz, MNRF |
| Mitch Baldwin, MNRF | Ngan Diep, MECP | Pamala Lamba, MECP |
| Greg Wilson, MECP | Bonnie Fox, CO | Mark Peacock, Lower Thames Valley CA |
| Bridget Brown, GLSLC | Phillipe Murphy-Rheaume, GLSLC | Joanna Eyquem, Intact |
| Tracy Eso, Intact | Larry Hildebrand, CZCA | Linda Mortsch, CZCA |
| Pete Zuzek, CZCA | Susan Hall, LURA | James Knott, LURA |
| Janette Anderson, Citizen |
PELEE COASTAL RESILIENCE COMMITTEE CASE STUDY
For the second year of the Resilience Framework development, the CZCA team is focused on engagement within the two littoral cells that converge on the Pelee Peninsula. A Resilience Committee was formed with members of the local community, the Caldwell First Nation, the Lower Thames Valley and Essex Region Conservation Authorities, Municipal partners, and senior levels of government. Through a series of in-person and virtual meetings the Resilience Committee is exploring governance needs, Steps 1 and 2 of the Framework, and contributing resources to a proof-of-concept resilience plan report. Meeting resources are provided in the Year 2 links below.
Downloads
Year 1
Nov. 17, 2022 – Think Tank Meeting:
Dec. 15, 2022 – Think Tank Meeting:
Year 2
Oct. 11, 2023 - Pelee Coastal Resilience Committee:
Oct. 27, 2023 - Pelee Coastal Resilience Committee:
Nov. 13, 2023 - Release of the Coastal Resilience Framework Report:
Nov. 24, 2023 – Pelee Coastal Resilience Committee:
Jan. 26, 2024 – Pelee Coastal Resilience Committee:
Questions or Comments?
Contact the Lead Consultant: Pete Zuzek, Zuzek Inc.
905-719-8980