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Minneapolis 2040 - Minneapolis, Minnesota Comprehensive Plan
2019
Minneapolis 2040 is the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota’s Comprehensive Plan - that will guide policy and decision making in the city in terms of the built, natural and economic environment for the next ten years. The document includes 14 Goals adopted by the City Council in 2017 that articulate the plan’s intent. One of the plan’s primary goals is for the city to become climate resilient by 2040, which includes a number of adaptation policies and actions for near-term implementation. The Comprehensive Plan includes 100 Policies, each of which supports one or more of the primary goals.
Related Organizations: City of Minneapolis, Minnesota
Resource Category: Planning
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Identification and Engagement of Socially Vulnerable Populations in the USACE Decision Making Process
From the U. S. Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) Institute for Water Resources, this primer provides guidance on better identifying and engaging with individuals and groups of people who are more vulnerable to floods based on socioeconomic factors such as lack of access to education, adequate housing, economic resources, health care, and strong social networks. The report provides strategies, tools, and examples of how to work with these vulnerable populations, stressing how active community engagement can actually lead to better decision making around water resources.
Related Organizations: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
Authors or Affiliated Users: Chris Baker, Seth Cohen, Gigi Coulson, Susan Durden, Ed Rossman
Resource Category: Planning
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Mapping Coastal Risks and Social Vulnerability: Current Tools and Legal Risks
April 27, 2015
From North Carolina Sea Grant, this publication is designed for local government officials considering social vulnerability in coastal communities dealing with extreme weather events and increased flooding. Mapping Coastal Risks and Social Vulnerability: Current Tools and Legal Risks outlines available data sets for social vulnerability, their current and potential use, and the associated legal risks in using that information for climate adaptation planning.
Related Organizations: North Carolina Sea Grant
Authors or Affiliated Users: Lisa Schiavinato, Heather Payne
Resource Category: Solutions
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Social Cohesion: The Secret Weapon in the Fight for Equitable Climate Resilience
May 2015
From the Center for American Progress, this report discusses the role that social cohesion plays in preparedness and response to climate change induced extreme weather events, with a focus on the vulnerability of low-income communities. Methods to integrate community resilience into climate resilience are described, and specific recommendations to foster climate and social resilience are provided. In addition to the value of social cohesion in climate resiliency, the report details how addressing the unique housing, economic and health vulnerabilities of low income groups will in turn have benefits for the community at large.
Related Organizations: Center for American Progress
Author or Affiliated User: Danielle Baussan
Resource Category: Solutions
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Lessons from the Storm: Climate Displacement Three Years After Hurricane Sandy
October 28, 2015
This report by the Center for American Progress assesses the recovery of New York’s and New Jersey’s middle- and low-income communities three years after Hurricane Sandy. The report analyzes the challenges encountered by state and city leaders to help reduce displacement of people in the days and years following the storm, as well as innovative policies that emerged to prevent future extreme weather and climate displacement. The Center also highlights the important role that community groups play as citizen first responders, liaisons to government officials, and in long-term housing and recovery efforts.
Related Organizations: Center for American Progress
Authors or Affiliated Users: Danielle Baussan, Miranda Peterson
Resource Category: Solutions
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Resilience for Free: How Solar+Storage Could Protect Multifamily Affordable Housing from Power Outages at Little or No Net Cost
October 14, 2015
This report from the Clean Energy Group uses project data for buildings in New York, Chicago, and Washington, D. C. , to examine the financial case for installing solar photovoltaics (PV) and battery storage systems (“solar+storage”) to support multifamily affordable housing. With the right market structures and incentives, solar+storage systems can provide an economic return, on par with energy efficiency or stand-alone solar. They can also help make affordable housing energy resilient by guaranteeing power for common area lighting, water, and communications.
Related Organizations: Clean Energy Group
Authors or Affiliated Users: Lew Milford, Robert Sanders, Seth Mullendore
Resource Category: Solutions
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Reaching Higher Ground: Avenues to Secure and Manage New Land for Communities Displaced by Climate Change
May 2017
From the Center for Progressive Reform, this paper provides an analysis of the legal, policy, and corporate tools to acquire and govern land to relocate a community. It presents the most promising approaches that could feed into workable strategies for land acquisition, with the aim of protecting people and property in the short term, promoting climate resiliency in the long-term, and maintaining important cultural and economic assets. A number of case studies are included, many of which are focused on Native Americans and Alaskan Natives, since sea level rise and in turn coastal relocation is a present issue among these communities.
Related Organizations: Center for Progressive Reform
Authors or Affiliated Users: Maxine Burkett, Robert R.M. Verchick, David Flores
Resource Category: Solutions
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Beyond Diversity: A Roadmap to Building an Inclusive Organization
May 2017
This paper assesses the diversity of staff and boards of directors among large non-profit organizations and foundations working in the environmental sector. The paper argues that diversity is increasingly important within this sector to broaden the base of constituents, increase focus on environmental justice, and bring in a wider range of perspective to successfully identify solutions to environmental challenges. While this paper is not specifically focused on adaptation, it does discuss findings about diversity within organizations that are working in the adaptation space.
Author or Affiliated User: Maya A. Beasley
Resource Category: Solutions
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An Equitable Water Future - A National Briefing Paper
June 6, 2017
From the U. S. Water Alliance, An Equitable Water Future explores the implications of water supply stress and management on vulnerable or disadvantaged communities and discusses the opportunities to build more equitable water systems. The report identifies the ways in which water issues like affordability and aging infrastructure disproportionately impact vulnerable communities, and highlights the potential to leverage water systems to build water equity. The Alliance determined that the focal elements to building water equity are to ensure that all people have access to safe, clean water; benefit from water infrastructure investments; and are climate resilient.
Related Organizations: U.S. Water Alliance
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The Kresge Foundation Climate Resilient and Equitable Water Systems (CREWS) Initiative
2017
Climate Resilient and Equitable Water Systems (CREWS) consists of 24 nonprofits - Kresge Foundation grantees - who are building solutions for low-income communities in U. S. cities to adapt to climate enhanced storm and flood impacts. CREWS programs are transforming urban stormwater and wastewater systems with climate resilient integrated water-management practices and socially equitable solutions. CREWS is an initiative of the Kresge Foundation’s Environment Program, focused on climate resilience through adaptation, mitigation, and social justice.
Related Organizations: The Kresge Foundation
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