Policy and Process Considerations for Enhanced Resilience : A review of best practices and stakeholder perspectives to refine UBC’s Residential Environmental Assessment Program (REAP)
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department or school: Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of
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alternative: Policy and Process Considerations for Enhanced Resilience : A review of best practices and stakeholder perspectives to refine UBC’s Residential Environmental Assessment Program (REAP) 3.2 “Enhanced Resiliency” credit
contributor: University of British Columbia. School of Community and Regional Planning
contributor: University of British Columbia. Campus and Community Planning
creator: Kew, Jonathan
issued: 2021-03-24T17:51:02Z
issued: 2020-08-31
description: The newest iteration of UBC’s green-building rating system, REAP 3.2, will be the first to implement credits for resilience and climate adaptation. As REAP 3.2’s Enhanced Resiliency credit references the BC Housing Mobilizing, Building and Advancing Resilience (MBAR) papers on strategies for climate driven chronic stressors, this project entailed a literature review and interviews with four MBAR stakeholders, to determine whether the credits are aligned with expert perspectives. With respect to findings, the interviewees generally agreed that REAP 3.2’s Climate Adaptation category and Enhanced Resiliency credit represents a step in the right direction. But without an internal process at UBC to weigh, scale, or split the MBAR strategies into prerequisite and optional components, some stakeholders believed the credit would be less effective. Most stakeholders emphasized the importance of a deliberate facilitation process to align stakeholder goals, and to determine appropriate strategies for each development collaboratively. Models like the Integrated Building, Adaptation and Mitigation Assessment (IBAMA) framework are emerging as potential tools to structure an inclusive and comprehensive process for weighing climate mitigation and adaptation strategies. REAP 3.2 does have some gaps. For instance, the current Climate Adaptation prerequisites do not cover all best practices emergency preparedness. Disease transmission and seismic resilience were identified as the major stressor gaps in the Enhanced Resiliency credit. The former is going to be added as a primer to the MBAR series soon, making it easy to integrate into the existing Enhanced Resiliency credit. More substantive earthquake resilience represents a more prohibitive cost, but was identified by multiple stakeholders and in the literature as the predominant gap in the provincial discussion. Other building rating systems provide credits for advocacy and education on-behalf of more rigorous earthquake codes, and …
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note: Policy and Process Considerations for Enhanced Resilience A review of best practices and stakeholder perspectives to refine UBC’s Residential Environmental Assessment Program (REAP) Prepared by: Jonathan Kew Prepared for: Course Code: PLAN 528A University of British Columbia Date: 31 August 2020 Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS Sustainability Program provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student research project and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore, readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Sustainability Program representative about the current status of the subject matter of a report”. University of British Columbia Social Ecological Economic Development Studies (SEEDS) Sustainability Program Student Research Report Policy and Process Considerations for Enhanced Resilience! A review of best prac0ces and stakeholder perspec0ves to refine UBC’s Residen0al Environmental Assessment Program (REAP) 3.2 “Enhanced Resiliency” credit !Jonathan Kew PLAN 528A Capstone Project August, 2020 UBC SEEDS Sustainability Program Student Research Report Policy and Process Considera0ons for Enhanced Resilience: A review of best prac0ces and stakeholder perspec0ves to refine UBC’s Residen0al Environmental Assessment Program (REAP) 3.2 “Enhanced Resiliency” credit Jonathan Kew B.A., UBC, 2015 University of BriHsh Columbia PLAN 528A Dr. Tom HuNon Clients: UBC Campus & Community Planning, Sustainability and Engineering Penny Martyn, Manager, Green Building John Madden, Director, Sustainability and Engineering A Capstone Research Paper presented to the School of Community and Regional Planning, UBC, in parHal fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Community a…
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is shown at: 10.14288/1.0396358
language: eng
peer review status: Unreviewed
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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scholar level: Graduate
is part of: UBC Social Ecological Economic Development Studies (SEEDS) Student Report
is part of: University of British Columbia. PLAN 528A
subject: Buildings
subject: Climate
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/77599