4. Infrastructure, Planning & Development
This category deals with climate-related threats to water resources and communities from increased temperatures, storm frequency and intensity, changes in precipitation, and increased flooding and erosion. Planners need to identify and assess vulnerabilities and develop adaptive responses to protect infrastructure and public health and safety, all while limiting environmental damage. Strategies within this category include improving existing or designing new infrastructure to withstand the effects of climate change, incorporating climate change into community and land use planning, creating or modifying development measures (e.g., removing shoreline hardening, encouraging low impact development), and developing disaster preparedness plans and policies.
Strategies
Case Studies by Strategy
- A Roadmap for Action: The Chicago Climate Action Plan
- Fish, Fisheries, and Water Resources: Adapting to Ontario’s Changing Climate
- Integrating Climate Change into Municipal Watershed Management in Ontario
- Integrating Climate Change into the Planning and Operations of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Wisconsin
- Investigating the Impact of Climate Change on Combined and Separate Sewer Overflows in Milwaukee Watersheds
- London, Ontario’s Climate Change Adaptation Strategy
- Project Clean Lake: Updating Cleveland’s Sewer Systems to Reduce Stormwater Overflows
- Rein in the Runoff: Michigan’s Spring Lake Stormwater Management Project
- Water Supply Planning for Illinois
- Weather – Extreme Trends (WET): The Minnehaha Creek Watershed Stormwater Adaptation Study
- Building Capacity for Climate-Resilient Communities and Water Conservation in the Huron River Watershed
- Climate Adaptation in the City of Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Climate Change Adaptation Planning at the State Level in Minnesota
- Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Planning in Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan Coastal Communities
- Great Lakes Adaptation Assessment for Cities
- New York’s Climate Smart Communities Program
- Project Clean Lake: Updating Cleveland’s Sewer Systems to Reduce Stormwater Overflows
- Rein in the Runoff: Michigan’s Spring Lake Stormwater Management Project
- The Ontario Centre for Climate Impacts and Adaptation Resources’ Climate Adaptation Initiatives
- Using Green Infrastructure to Prevent Sewage Overflows in Detroit
- A Roadmap for Action: The Chicago Climate Action Plan
- Climate Adaptation in the City of Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Integrating Climate Change into Water Quality Monitoring on the Fond du Lac Reservation in Minnesota
- Project Clean Lake: Updating Cleveland’s Sewer Systems to Reduce Stormwater Overflows
- The Chicago Wilderness Climate Action Plan for Nature
- Using Green Infrastructure to Prevent Sewage Overflows in Detroit