Paying for Urban Infrastructure Adaptation in Canada (2015)
This 2015 report explore existing economic instruments in use in the Canadian public sector and ways these instruments might be modified and applied to finance adaptation measures in Canada, especially in the local government context.
In doing so, the report looks at approaches currently in use in other OECD countries (see Appendix 1 for detailed examples), and new approaches that can be modified or utilized for adaptation. The outcomes of this review are applied to the City of Vancouver (CoV), with the goal of helping the city adopt economic instruments that promote adaptation within the urban environment.
