Climate Change Adaptation in the Arid Southwest: A Workshop for Land and Resource Management
Sky Island Alliance Adaptation Workshop 2010
September 20-21, 2010
Tucson, Arizona
Workshop Facilitators: Louise Misztal, Lara Hansen
Synopsis
Are you grappling with effective resource management and conservation in the face of climate change? Although natural resource managers, scientists, and conservation organizations recognize the need to respond to the effects of climate change, there are many outstanding questions. How can existing information be applied? What is still uncertain and how do we work with uncertainty? What is already being done and what should be done next? To explore and address these questions, Sky Island Alliance is convening a three part series of workshops over the next two years as part of the Sky Island Alliance climate change adaptation project.
Official workshop website: http://www.skyislandalliance.org/adaptationworkshop2010.htm
USEFUL READING
Designing Climate-Smart Conservation: Guidance and Case Studies. Hansen, Hoffman, Drews and Mielbrecht. 2010. Conservation Biology.
Resource management in a changing and uncertain climate. Joshua J Lawler, Timothy H Tear, Chris Pyke, M Rebecca Shaw, Patrick Gonzalez, Peter Kareiva, Lara Hansen, Lee Hannah, Kirk Klausmeyer, Allison Aldous, Craig Bienz, and Sam Pearsall. 2010. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment Vol. 8, No. 1.
Climate Savvy: Adapting Conservation and Resource Management to a Changing World. Hansen and Hoffman. 2010. Island Press.
Buying Time: A User's Guide to Building Resistance and Resilience to Climate Change in the Natural World. Hansen, Biringer and Hoffman. 2003. WWF.
SOME USEFUL WEBSITES
Soutwest Climate Change Network
CLIMAS: Climate Assessment for the Southwest
University of Arizona Institute of the Evironment
Climate Change and Natural Resources in Pima County
Las Cienegas National Conservation Area
