Geotechnical Considerations from the June 2013 Southern Alberta Flood

Climate change has the potential to create a cascade of impacts on interrelated and integrated systems. The capacity of natural systems and society to adapt to new extremes and vulnerabilities and to mitigate appropriately are being studied by scientists, policy makers, industry and others. With respect to highways or linear corridors, and more specifically, the geotechnical component of these structures there are expected and unexpected consequences to climate change. The geotechnical consequences are mostly related to changed conditions at known and potential geohazard locations and the mitigation of these geohazards where they intersect with existing highway corridors. This paper provides a brief overview of significant and likely consequences of climate change on geohazards that occur along Alberta highways. The major flood of June 2013 is used to support the assessment. The cause of climate change is not germane to this discussion; this paper accepts the notion that climate change is or will occur through natural cycles and anthropogenic inputs.

• Record URL:
  http://conf.tac-atc.ca/english/annualconference/tac2015/s15/skirrow.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)

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  Ottawa, Ontario  Canada 
• Authors:
  • SKIRROW, R
• Conference:
  • TAC 2015: Getting You There Safely - 2015 Conference and Exhibition of the Transportation Association of Canada // ATC: Destination sécurité routière - 2015 Congrès et Exposition de l'Association des transports du Canada
• Publication Date: 2015

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Pagination: 1 PDF file, 1.1 MB, 13p.
• Monograph Title: TAC 2015: Getting You There Safely - 2015 Conference and Exhibition of the Transportation Association of Canada // ATC: Destination sécurité routière - 2015 Congrès et Exposition de l'Association des transports du Canada

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Climate change; Conferences; Risk assessment; Soil mechanics
• Geographic Terms: Canada
• ITRD Terms: 8018: Canada; 8531: Case study; 2470: Climate change; 8525: Conference; 9129: Risk assessment; 5755: Soil mechanics
• Subject Areas: Environment; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01591610
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)
• Files: ITRD, TAC
• Created Date: Feb 26 2016 10:46AM