Alberta's Adaptation Resilience Training (ART)
The ART training program was developed by Alberta in partnership with Associated Engineering, and jointly funded by Alberta and Natural Resources Canada, through their Building Regional Adaptation Capacity and Expertise (BRACE) program. BRACE focused on increasing the ability of communities, organizations, small and medium-sized enterprises and practitioners to access, use, and apply knowledge and tools on climate change adaptation in their work. The development of these modules involved input from municipalities, post-secondary organizations, professional associations, not-for-profits, businesses and industry groups.
ART was developed as an Alberta-focused set of introductory sessions to help professionals working in Alberta develop a basic awareness of climate change adaptation and build capacity to integrate adaptation into their professional practice.
Foundations Modules
ART offered foundation modules to help build climate literacy in order to inform, guide, and support discussions and decision making. The foundational modules covered the following core topics:
- Climate science
- Risk Identification and Management
- Economics
These modules used Alberta-based examples to illustrate different concepts and demonstrate their application to the region.
Practice Area Modules
ART also offered more advanced modules that built on the knowledge gained in the foundation modules. Organized by practice areas, these four modules explore how core topics, like climate science and risk identification, apply to:
- Watershed Management
- Infrastructure
- Agriculture
- Community Planning