Living With Water Podcast

Living With Water Podcast

Living With Water is an interdisciplinary research group focusing on coastal adaptation and flood response in the area commonly known as British Columbia, Canada.

Episodes

October 24, 2025 27 mins

We sit down with Sam and Diego, UBC Sustainability Scholars, to talk about their ecological mapping project at Maplewood Flats. Working alongside the Wild Bird Trust of BC and Tsleil-Waututh Nation, they explored the site’s diverse habitats through field surveys, plant identification, and LiDAR sea level rise modelling.

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In this episode of Living With Water, Kara Crabb sits down with Benji Eisenberg—marine biologist, artist, and landscape architect—to talk about rethinking how we design with changing coastlines. From launching a Kelp Restoration Pilot with the Tsleil-Waututh Nation to exploring the intersections of ecology, culture, and design, Benji shares why he focuses on strategies instead of fixed solutions when it comes to adaptation. To lea...

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August 12, 2025 27 mins
In this weeks episode of the Living with Water podcast, we’re joined by Ben Cross, a PhD student at the University of Waterloo. His research focuses on using cost-benefit analysis to support decisions about when to relocate communities from flood-prone areas versus investing in protective infrastructure. A unique aspect of his research is incorporating social and psychological impacts into these assessments, accounting for non-mone...
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In this episode of the Living with Water podcast, we explore the complex and sometimes controversial topic of managed retreat. Co-host Kara Crabb sits down with Shaieree Cottar, a senior policy analyst at Public Safety Canada, to discuss her 2024 case study on Merritt, BC, which faced devastating floods in 2021. Shaieree’s research examines how local governments are considering retreat as a response to climate risks and what suppor...

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How can coastal communities adapt to climate change in ways that are both effective and just? In Episode 3, "Just Adapt to Rising Sea Levels," Tira Okamoto introduces the Just Adapt Framework, an approach she developed to help planners embed justice and equity into coastal adaptation processes. Tira shares how the framework supports decision-makers in recognizing and incorporating community culture, values, and knowledge at every s...

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In November 2021, the southern mainland of British Columbia experienced its most destructive flooding event in recent history, with a declared state of emergency and the evacuation of over a thousand homes. Felicia Watterodt has been researching social and political movement surrounding this event in an effort to understand actionable and implementable change. In Episode 2, "The Post Disaster Window" Felicia shares what she has lea...

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Planning scholar Anwen Rees noticed the importance of conduct in the nature-based solutions space, particularly in settler-colonial contexts like Canada. Today she is foregrounding her research with a framework for new governance systems. In this debut episode, culture journalist Kara Crabb sits down with Rees to discuss. 

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