Living with Water is Awarded Funding to Pursue Interdisciplinary Climate Change Research

Kees Lokman, associate professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia, started the coastal adaptation lab to focus on design challenges related to sea level rise (SLR), water and food shortages, and energy transition. Now he is starting a new project: the Living with Water research group. With generous support from the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, Living with Water was created to bring professionals across disciplines together around the problem of SLR, flood response, and coastal adaptation.

“We don’t have a single body overseeing coastal flood management and ecosystem conservation for our province, and it’s a critical lack. With this work, we hope to set the foundation for an integrated coastal flood adaptation plan for British Columbia,” said Lokman.

By bringing together engineers, government representatives, lawyers, professors and student researchers under this focus area, Living with Water creates a space for developing strategies and solutions in the evolving climate context of BC.