One of the greatest challenges faced by the governments of all countries today lies in creating institutional convergence that integrates global goals emanating from the Sustainable Development Goals, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, and the World Humanitarian Summit. Disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation are part of key agendas pursued in all these recent global agreements. The effective reduction of losses and risks stemming from natural hazards and climate extremes requires an integrated action at various levels of government and involves a wide range of stakeholders. Canadians in all regions are exposed to risk from natural disasters. As Canada’s natural and social environment changes, the complexity of managing the consequences of disasters also increases due to the ever-greater technological dependencies and interdependencies. This is the context for this book, which puts the spotlight on the broad range of natural hazards that threaten Canada but also on the strategies and more practical actions that can challenge conventional perceptions of risk and inform decisionmaking to arrive at a more effective disaster risk reduction and resilience building. In this extensive treatment of the subject, Dr. Nirupama Agrawal explores hazards from the small and medium scale such as erosion, landslides, and blizzards to the large scale such as epidemics, droughts, and earthquakes. The book systematically defines these key threats and explores their potential impacts on Canada