The Climate Change and Emergency Management in Nova Scotia study will further the goal of ACAS and provide the Emergency Management Office (EMO) and the Nova Scotia Department of Environment (DOE) with a thorough understanding of how to better incorporate future climate change impacts into emergency planning and management in Nova Scotia. [...] The provinces and territories have the legislative ability to include many disaster management activities in the laws that mandate and create Emergency Management Offices (EMOs), but of the four principles of emergency management, mitigation has received the least active support. [...] Nova Scotia Emergency Management Office Mandate The mandate and stated mission of EMO reflects the broad language of the legislation that guides the organization’s management of potential and actual emergencies. [...] In terms of the powers granted to EMO, the ability to “make surveys and studies to identify and record actual and potential hazards that may cause an emergency” and “conduct public information programs related to the prevention and mitigation of damage during an emergency” provides two direct opportunities to incorporate climate change adaptation into provincial emergency planning. [...] The cases here show that similar approaches to thinking about climate change have resulted in the incorporation of climate change and adaptation into individual thinking and learning, and subsequently into the policies of government.
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