What's New?

Resilient-C first went public in 2016 with a dataset containing information on 50 communities located around the Salish Sea in British Columbia. Since that initial release, the site has undergone extensive updates and now includes detailed information on over 180 coastal communities across seven provinces. Our team has also collected, analyzed, and recorded information on over 2,000 risk reduction actions these communities have taken to better understand, prepare for and reduce the potential impacts of coastal hazards. Below are just some of the updates that have occurred on the platform as part of our most recent updates.

March 2022 (v4.0)

This update brings the final set of user interface updates and refinements following a usability study our team completed in 2021. Our focus was primarily on the Find Similar Communities and Community Profiles pages of the site. This update also brings in the final three communities from Quebec to our dataset, bringing the total for that province up to eleven.

• 3 New Communities from Quebec:
  • Gaspé
  • Québec City
  • Percé
• Added new risk reduction actions for several communities in BC from new or updated official planning documents.
• Made the Find Similar Communities map full-screen and moved map filters to the top of the screen.
• Added a Top Communities section to the Find Similar Communities map to quickly identify a community's most similar peers across the country.
• Refined and standardized the 25 hazard risk vulnerability indicator names and descriptions across the platform.
• Added a copy of the platform's Action Collection Guide in both French and English.
• Added new reports highlighting coastal adaptation in Quebec and Nova Scotia.
• Menu updates based on user feedback from our 2021 usability study: Moved several items from Research to About and added several new pages to make content more accessible to non-academic researchers and practitioners.
• Split the previous Tutorials page into Tutorials and Videos to allow more space for webinar and related research videos.
• Slight rescaling of community map markers to make them stand out a bit better in heavily populated areas.
• Added new risk reduction actions for several communities in BC, Nova Scotia, and Quebec.
• Fixed an issue where a full-screen loading screen appeared if the back button was used by any browser using the Safari browser for rendering (MacOS, iOS, and iPadOS).

September 2021 (v3.4)

This update to the platform focused on adding our initial set of communities from Quebec to the platform. This update included the first set of user interface updates and refinements following a usability study our team completed earlier in 2021. Highlights for this update include:

• 8 New Communities from Quebec:
  • Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine
  • Percé
  • Bonaventure
  • New Richmond
  • Maria
  • Carleton-sur-mer
  • Sainte-Flavie
  • Sept-Îles
• Added new risk reduction actions for several communities in BC, Nova Scotia, and Quebec.

August 2021 (v3.3)

This update to the platform brought a number of changes and improvements to the platform, with a focus on communities from Newfoundland. Highlights for this update include:

• 19 New Communities:
  • Manitoba (1):
    • Churchill
  • Nova Scotia (1):
    • Truro
  • Newfoundland & Labrador (17):
    • St. John's
    • Corner Brook
    • Arnold's Cove
    • Bay Roberts
    • Botwood
    • Carbonear
    • Channel–Port aux Basques
    • Clarenville
    • Clarke's Beach
    • Conception Bay South
    • Marystown
    • Petty Harbour–Maddox Cove
    • Placentia
    • Portugal Cove–St. Philip's
    • Stephenville
    • Torbay
    • Upper Island Cove
• Added new risk reduction actions for several communities in BC, Nova Scotia, Manitoba, and Newfoundland.
• Updated hazard exposure information for earthquakes and tsunamis.
• Fixed an issue with how ordinal data was being compared between communities when assessing similarity.
• Fixed an issue where communities in BC were being cutoff on maps when quick zoom links were used.
• Fixed an issue where some actions were incorrectly coded to the District of North Vancouver instead of the City of North Vancouver.
• Updated several indicators to use more recent (2019, 2020) and more complete data sources.
• Smashed several additional minor bugs.