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Southeastern Connecticut Regional Resilience Guidebook
2017
This guidebook summarizes the main points of agreement from a dialogue between fifty professionals who met in the fall of 2016 to describe the top challenges and potential solutions that could promote regional resilience in Southeastern Connecticut. The challenges and solutions are organized by sector – including water, food, ecosystems, transportation, energy, the economy, and cross-sector issues and solutions. In addition, the guidebook provides an overview of the geologic context of the region and sample projects that showcase design options at the neighborhood, municipal, and multi-municipal scale.
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Southeastern Connecticut Regional Resilience Vision Project
March 2017
This report summarizes a year of dialogue organized by The Nature Conservancy, the Southeastern Connecticut Council of Governments, and Southeastern Connecticut Enterprise Region that aimed to develop a shared understanding of resilience for the region and potential solutions. This was the first regional resilience effort in Connecticut. The report details the key issues identified through a series of “challenges workshop dialogues,” in which participants conceptualized challenges relevant to water, food, ecosystems, transportation, energy, and the economy.
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Opportunities for Equitable Adaptation in Cities: A Workshop Summary Report
February 15, 2017
This summary report describes the conversations and discussions of participants during a two-day workshop help in April 2016 focusing on on city-level actions that would support social justice goals and better prepare communities for the effects of climate change. The workshop convened nearly 50 thought leaders on equity and climate adaptation, including city officials, representatives of environmental justice and social justice organizations, state and federal partners, and funders who support this work.
Authors or Affiliated Users: Melissa Deas, Jessica Grannis, James DeWeese, Sara Hoverter
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Oregon Climate and Health Resilience Plan
February 2, 2017
The 2017 Oregon Climate and Health Resilience Plan outlines a set of recommendations for the state’s Public Health Division, local and tribal health departments, and community partners. While past reporting on climate and health in Oregon focused on impacts and specifically vulnerable and frontline communities in the state, this plan looks more to existing community assets, resources, and networks to support climate adaptation planning. The plan outlines a set of actions that the public health workforce specifically can take to adapt to climate change.
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Climate Change Adaptation through Local Comprehensive Planning: Guidance for Puget Sound Communities
February 2017
This guidance was developed to support local government decision-makers, planners and community members in the Puget Sound region of Washington to better understand the implications of climate change in the area, and to further climate adaptation planning. The report includes detail on the projected climate change impacts for the region, and guidance on incorporating climate impacts and adaptation planning into local comprehensive plans. The report uses the Washington State Comprehensive Plan requirements under the Growth Management Act to inform the adoption of climate adaptation solutions within local planning elements.
Authors or Affiliated Users: Lara J. Hansen, Stacey Nordgren, Eric Mielbrecht
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GCC: Policy Considerations for the Maryland Commission on Climate Change
January 31, 2017
This memorandum from the Georgetown Climate Center (GCC) seeks to help Maryland to document the important work it is already doing to prepare for the impacts of climate change and to provide recommendations for additional steps that the state could take, drawing on examples of practices from other states. In order to protect lives, health, property, economies, and natural systems, states need to adapt how they plan, regulate, and make investments to consider future climate change.
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Climate Change Resilience: Governance and Reforms
January 30, 2017
Climate Change Resilience: Governance and Reforms offers policy recommendations to increase resilience to climate change impacts through improved governance. Provided by the Arizona State University Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, the report integrates input from the 2014 Climate Change Resilience: Governance and Reforms Summit in Washington, DC. The summit goals were to explore the cross-sector, multi-level, contentious, and political facets of resilience; and to examine links among resilience, community empowerment, and economic development.
Authors or Affiliated Users: James Nachbaur, Irina Feygina, Elise Lipkowitz, Darshan Karwat
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New York State Ocean Action Plan
January 23, 2017
New York Department of Environmental Conservation released a final Ocean Action Plan (OAP) for the state of New York - a ten-year action plan focused on improving ocean ecosystem health, and the ocean’s capacity to provide sustainable benefits to the state. One of the four primary goals included in the plan is to increase resilience to climate change impacts. The OAP will guide State government funding, research, management, and outreach and education choices.
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2016 U.S. Department of Energy Environmental Justice Strategy
January 2017
This strategy document is the culmination of a process that began in November 2007 to review and update the Department of Energy (DOE) 1995 Environmental Justice Strategy. The strategy describes DOE’s plan for complying with Executive Order 12898, Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Population (Clinton, 1994). The strategy outlines its objectives to integrate environmental justice into National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) implementation, minimize climate change impacts on vulnerable people, and comply with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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USFWS Polar Bear Conservation Management Plan
January 9, 2017
The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Polar Bear Conservation Management Plan was developed as a guide to polar bear conservation in the U. S. , and calls for decisive action to address Arctic warming and protect polar bears from the impacts of climate change. This plan outlines conservation and adaptation strategies for the USFWS and agency partners to support the recovery of polar bears, while articulating the need to lower greenhouse gas levels to ultimately protect the survival of the species.
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