Climate Adaptation Information
Freshwater Future's Climate Program focuses on how to recognize and incorporate climate change adaptation into the work you are already doing to protect water resources. The need for climate change adaptation is based on the fact that no matter how much we attempt to mitigate greenhouse gases, it is evident that sufficient results cannot be achieved in the short term. The Earth is committed to continuing climate change. We cannot elimate at this moment in time climate change impacts. These impacts will play out everywhere - in cities, rural communities, inland lakes and rivers, forests and other areas. The impacts will include more intense storms, increased precipitation, flooding of communities as well as drought and water supply shortages. These impacts will cause property damage as well as damage to ecosystems. Thus, to protect both human and natural communities, we must develop climate adaptation strategies.
Below you will find a list of resources that will help you to begin to think about how climate change affects your work and what you can do about it:
Presentation by Jennie Hoffman of EcoAdapt: Adapting Your Work to Climate Change
Restoring the Great Lakes' Coastal Future - Technical Guidance for the Design and Implementation of Climate-Smart Restoration Projects, released by Eco-Adapt and National WIldlife Federation, http://ecoadapt.org/news#item_21.
American Climate Attitudes, released by the Social Capital Project,offers suggestions for how to shape your messaging, www.thesocialcapitalproject.org.
Union of Concerned Scientists publications and maps at www.climatechoices.org. The maps of how climates will shift southwards in each state and across the region are compelling - and disturbing.
Climate Change and Forests of the Future: Managing in the Face of Uncertainty (Miller, et al, 2007) addresses the flexibility and adaptative strategies that will have to be incorporated in community planning to reduce vulnerability to climate change impacts.
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