Practitioners Conference on Climate Change Adaptation: Integrated Strategies for Human and Natural
February 7-9, 2012 • Portland, OR
Overview
Meeting Goals:
- Elicit experience-based progress and challenges from Kresge grantees and others engaged in developing and implementing adaptation plans for natural and/or built human communities.
- Explore strategies for propagating successful, integrated climate change adaptation efforts.
- Share information and communicate ideas for emerging adaptation groups and portals such as CAKE and the American Society for Adaptation Practitioners (ASAP).
Agenda & Speakers
Discussions from the Meeting:
- What does successful adaptation look like?
- Synthesis of Kresge Grantee Meeting
Reading & Resources
- DataBasin, created by the Conservation Biology Institute, is an online system that connects users with spatial data sets, tools, and expertise.
- Decision Theater, a research facility and decision lab with ASU, enables stakeholders to look across and within complex systems and supports decision makers as they gain consensus and make more informed decisions.
- The Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (CAKE) created in partnership with EcoAdapt and Island Press.
- Climate Adaptation as an Evolutionary Process: A White Paper, published on April 6, 2012 that summarizes the finding of this meeting.