Adapting Your Work to Climate Change: a Freshwater Future/EcoAdapt workshop
Fri-Sat, October 22-23
Detroit, MI
SYNOPSIS
Climate change doesn’t mean that you have to panic or close your eyes and pretend it isn’t happening. This session is designed to provide an understanding of the basic approaches and tools to begin to incorporate climate change into your existing conservation planning and management efforts. A team of experts will explore key concepts and principles in adaptation, and present case studies of planning and management strategies that are underway. The session will also include a climate change clinic in which participants will start applying adaptation principles to their own conservation plans and issues. Participants should be prepared to briefly describe their own work. Come ready to brainstorm, leave ready to act.
AGENDA AND PRESENTATIONS
Hall: Climate Change Adaptation: Great Lakes region examples
Hansen: Adapting Your Work to Climate Change: A Framework
Hansen: Tools and Resources
Hoffman: A Very Brief Climate Communications Overview
Hoffman: Impacts Table
Koslow: Climate Change Adaptation Efforts in the Great Lakes Region
USEFUL READING
General background material on climate change
Climate Savvy: Adapting Conservation and Resource Management to a Changing World. Hansen, L.J. and J.R. Hoffman. 2010. Island Press.
America’s Climate Choices. U.S. National Academy of Sciences Research Council. 2008.
Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Science. United States Global Change Research Program. 2009.
Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States. United States Global Change Research Program. 2009.
Climate change in the Great Lakes Region
Improving the Odds: Using Climate-Readiness Planning to Reduce the Impacts of Climate Change on the Great Lakes Ecosystem. National Wildlife Federation. 2010.
Confronting Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region. Union of Concerned Scientists:
- 2003 series, including solutions documents
- 2009, impacts studies
Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region: Starting A Public Discussion. Wittman, S. 2008. University of Wisconsin Sea Grant.
Climate Communication and Education
Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Sciences. U.S. Global Change Research Program. 2009.
Curriculum Guide for the Climate Impacts Map. Union of Concerned Scientists. 2000.
The Psychology of Climate Change Communication. Center for Research on Environmental Decisions. 2010. Columbia University.
Global Warming's Six Americas. 2008. A. Leiserowitz, E. Maibach, and C. Roser-Renouf. Yale Project on Climate Change and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication.
Climate change and water quality
National Water Program Strategy Response to Climate Change. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 2008.
Lake Erie Lakewide Management Plan Report. EPA and Environment Canada. 2006. Section 11 of discusses climate change, Cladophora, and the fish and bird die-offs.
Climate change and water quality in the Great Lakes region: Risks, opportunities, and responses. Mortsch, L., M. Alden and J. Scheraga. 2003.
Climate Change and restoration and resource management
Adapting to Climate Change: A Planning Guide for State Coastal Managers. NOAA. 2010.
An Assessment of Decision-Making Processes: The Feasibility of Incorporating Climate Change Information into Land Protection Planning. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 2009.
Great Lakes Restoration & the Threat of Global Warming. Dempsey, D., J. Elder, and D. Scavia. 2008. A Report by the Healing Our Waters - Great Lakes Coalition
SOME RELEVANT ADAPTATION CASE STUDIES ON CAKE
Preparing for Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region Report and Workshop
Climate Change Adaptation in Kimberley, British Columbia
Incorporating Climate Change Impacts into Activities in Charlotte Harbor, Florida
SOME USEFUL WEB SITES
Climate Change Adaptation Resource Kit from the Columbia Basin Trust Communities Adapting to Climate Change Initiative. Provides case studies, lessons learned, and resource documents from some great community-based projects in British Columbia.
Digital Coast. This online tool from NOAA's Coastal Services Center provides tools, training, data, and case histories of how these tools have been used for climate adaptation and other coastal management issues. There are some pre-packaged collections of tools, data, and guidebooks for coastal managers interested in particular issues such as coastal inundation or offshore renewable energy planning.
NOAA Coastal Resource Center’s Coastal Climate Adaptation web site
