Adapting Your Work to Climate Change: A Freshwater Future Workshop
October 22-23, 2010 • Detroit, MI
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 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 & Speakers
- Hall: Adapting to Climate Change: Great Lakes Restoration Examples (no content)
- Hansen: Adapting Your Work to Climate Change: A Framework
- Hansen: Tools and Resources (no content)
- Hoffman: A Very Brief Climate Communications Overview
- Hoffman: Impacts Table
- Koslow: Climate Change Adaptation Efforts in the Great Lakes Region
Reading & Resources
- 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.)
- America’s Climate Choices. U.S. National Academy of Sciences Research Council. 2011. (2008 not available.)
- Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Science. United States Global Change Research Program. 2009. (View on CAKE.)
- United States Global Change Research Program. 2009. Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States. (View on CAKE.)
- 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. (View on CAKE.)
- Confronting Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region. Union of Concerned Scientists: 2008 version & 2009 version.
- 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. (View on CAKE.)
- 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. 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 and Water Quality:
- National Water Program Strategy Response to Climate Change. 2009. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (View on CAKE.)
- Lake Erie Lakewide Management Plan Report. 2008. EPA and Environment Canada. Section 11 discusses climate change, Cladophora, and the fish and bird die-offs. (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 Change and Restoration and Resource Management:
- Adapting to Climate Change: A Planning Guide for State Coastal Managers. NOAA. 2010. (View on CAKE.)
- An Assessment of Decision-Making Processes: The Feasibility of Incorporating Climate Change Information into Land Protection Planning. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 2009. (View on CAKE.)
- Great Lakes Restoration and 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.)
- Programmatic Framework for Considering Climate Change Impacts in Coastal Habitat Restoration, Land Acquisition, and Facility Development Investments. NOAA. 2010. (View on CAKE.)
- Voluntary Guidance for States to Incorporate Climate Change into State Wildlife Action Plans and Other Management Plans. Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. 2009. (View on CAKE.) (Latest version here.)
- Chicago Climate Action Plan. 2008. (View on CAKE.) (Latest version here.)
- Relevant Adaptation Case Studies on CAKE:
- Useful Websites:
- 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. (View on CAKE.)
- NOAA's Digital Coastal Resource Center. 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.
- US Global Change Research Program
- NOAA's Climate.gov
- US Forest Service Climate Change Resource Center