Adapting Your Work to Climate Change: A Freshwater Future Workshop
November 11-12, 2011 • Milwaukee, WI
Overview
Convening Partners: EcoAdapt, Freshwater Future
Climate change doesn’t mean that you have to panic or close your eyes and pretend it isn’t happening. This workshop is designed to provide an understanding of the basic approaches and tools to begin to incorporate climate change into your existing conservation efforts. We will explore key concepts in adaptation; approaches to communicating about climate change; and available tools and resources to help you move forward. The session will also include a climate change clinic in which participants will start applying adaptation principles to their own conservation project ideas. Participants should be prepared to briefly describe their own work. Come ready to brainstorm, leave ready to act.
Agenda & Speakers
Speakers:
- Vickie Deisner
- Lara Hansen
- Jennie Hoffman
- Julie O’Leary
- Jill Ryan
Presentations:
- Agenda
- Adaptation 101
- Communications
- Impacts
- Tools
- Freshwater Future/EcoAdapt Climate Adaptation Workbook
Reading & Resources
(* Indicates resources mentioned during the workshop)
- 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. (View on CAKE.)
- Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States. United States Global Change Research Program. 2009. (View on CAKE.)
- Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region:
- Climate Ready Great Lakes Training Modules. Great source of information on impacts, adaptation, and tools. Includes lots of powerpoint slides.
- Improving the Odds: Using Climate-Readiness Planning to Reduce the Impacts of Climate Change on the Great Lakes Ecosystem. National Wildlife Federation. 2010. (View on CAKE.)
- *Confronting Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region. Union of Concerned Scientists: 2008 version & 2009 version.
- 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. (View on CAKE.)
- Climate Change and Water Quality in the Great Lakes Region: Risks, Opportunities, and Responses. Mortsch, L., M. Alden and J. Scheraga. 2003. (View on CAKE.)
- Climate Communication and Education:
- *The Psychology of Climate Change Communication. Center for Research on Environmental Decisions. 2010. Columbia University.
- *Storytelling as Best Practice Video of Andy Goodman describing how non-profits can use storytelling for effective communication.
- Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Sciences. U.S. Global Change Research Program. 2009. (View on CAKE.)
- Curriculum Guide for the Climate Impacts Map. Union of Concerned Scientists. 2000.
- Global Warming's Six Americas. 2009. A. Leiserowitz, E. Maibach, and C. Roser-Renouf. Yale Project on Climate Change and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication. (View on CAKE.) (Latest version here.)
- Climate Change Adaptation Guides:
- Canadian Communities' Guidebook for Adaptation to Climate Change. Bizikova L., T. Neale and I. Burton. 2008. (View on CAKE.)
- Preparing for Climate Change: A Guidebook for Local, Regional, and State Governments. ICLEI, King County, and the Climate Impacts Group. 2007. (View on CAKE.)
- Relevant Adaptation Case Studies on CAKE:
- Useful Websites:
- *NOAA’s Digital Coast. Provides tools, training, data, and case histories of how these tools have been used for climate adaptation and other coastal management issues. (View on CAKE.)
- *NOAA Climate Services Good source of all kinds of climate change information.
- *Great Lakes Integrated Science and Assessment. GLISA’s focus is linking climate science for the Great Lakes and users of that science. Housed at University of Michigan/Michigan State University.
- Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts Good source for regional information and resources, including climate projections.