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The Resilience Institute is a national registered charity with a team that is laser focused on uniting people in strengthening their resilience to climate impacts through participatory informed education, applied research, and adaptation action. Our initiatives can be thought of as ‘readying’ communities for climate action in both mitigation and adaptation.
Our work is focused on strengthening the resilience of small, rural, and Indigenous communities to current- and near-future consequences of climate change. Unique to our work is that we actively weave multiple ways of knowing to advance local change and inspire transformative thinking about systems and approaches to resilience.
Representation of Diverse Values – Diverse representation is essential for robust, community-relevant adaptation and disaster risk responses. We strive to ensure that the values, insights, and perspectives of diverse people and communities are included in our programming, from planning to implementation. Youth, seniors, newcomers to Canada, and diverse cultures can inform and enrich adaptation and disaster planning.
Exploring diverse notions of resilience in the context of climate change.
Through a series of engagement activities, nearly 400 community members in the Canadian Rocky Mountains learned about glaciers and wildfires in the context of climate change.
Fire with Fire is a multi-year, multi-partner initiative aimed at building capacity for climate adaptation by braiding Indigenous, local, and scientific knowledge.
Bringing together farmers and scientists to co-develop on-farm practices to sequester carbon.
Supporting early adoption of beneficial management practices to improve soil health.
Evaluating the ecological role of Sweetgrass and its potential to mitigate climate change.
Developing a community-wide climate risk assessment inclusive of diverse voices.
Building capacity and planning for the reintroduction of buffalo with the Mistawasis First Nation.
Building momentum, skills, and capacity to address climate impacts with the Piikani Nation.
A course delivered to university students and researchers on collaborative research skills.
Flood adaptation in an era of rapid climate change.
Learn about our initiatives bringing communities together to explore the meaning of resilience.
Building on outcomes of our previous work, current initiatives are setting the stage for scaled-up climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction.
The TRI team works locally and globally with diverse partners on education and research initiatives that address climate change.