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This tab includes all resources relevant to adaptation in the public health sector. Apply filters to view resources for a particular region, state, resource category, or jurisdictional focus. 

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EPA Smart Growth: Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities

2011

EPA's Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities seeks to provide targeted technical assistance to communities to protect the environment, promote equitable development and help address the challenges of climate change using a variety of tools that have demonstrated results and widespread application. This technical assistance is designed to help selected local and/or tribal governments to implement development approaches that improve public health, create jobs, expand economic opportunity, and improve overall quality of life.

Resource Category: Data and tools

 

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Conveying the Human Implications of Climate Change: A Climate Change Communication Primer for Public Health Professionals

2011

This primer was developed to help public health professionals communicate the health implications of climate change to the public, for policy makers, and for other professionals whose work is - or will be - affected by climate change. The report addresses how to "get the message right" on the climate change implications for public health, and how to get the message out. 

Authors or Affiliated Users: Edward Maibach, Matthew Nisbet, Melinda Weathers

Resource Category: Education and Outreach

 

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Climate Change in Kivalina, Alaska - Strategies for Community Health

January 2011

Kivalina is a coastal Iñupiat village of 400 people in Northwest Alaska, on a barrier island of the Chukchi Sea.  This report details the struggles of the community of Kivalina to adapt to impacts of climate change including rising sea levels, storm surge, and melting permafrost, for which the village is quite vulnerable. The report contains detailed accounts of the Kivalina people and community, as well as the climate, seasons, air, sea, coast, land, rivers, biota, water, and food which all support the village's subsistence lifestyle.

Authors or Affiliated Users: Michael Brubaker, James Berner, Jacob Bell, John Warren

Resource Category: Assessments

 

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Wisconsin's Changing Climate: Impacts and Adaptation

2011

This report from the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI) provides an assessment of climate change impacts and adaptation strategies in Wisconsin. This assessment is written for Wisconsin policy-makers, managers, and decision makers in governmental bodies at all levels, including the state, counties, cities and municipalities. The intended audience also includes any person or organizations with a business, property or place already affected or likely affected by a changing climate.

Resource Category: Planning

 

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New York State Sea Level Rise Task Force Report to the Legislature

December 31, 2010

At the direction of the New York State legislature, the New York State Sea Level Rise Task Force evaluated approaches to protect New York’s remaining coastal ecosystems and natural habitats, and to increase coastal community resilience in the face of sea level rise.

Resource Category: Assessments

 

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Climate Ready States and Cities Initiative

December 2, 2010

Through the Climate Ready States and Cities Initiative, CDC supports health departments in the assessment of climate impacts on public health, and in the development of adaptation plans and programs. Funding from this Initiative has supported the following states and cities: 

Resource Category: Funding

 

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First Oregon Climate Assessment Report (OCAR)

December 2010

In 2007, the Oregon State Legislature charged the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute (OCCRI), via HB 3543, with assessing climate change science including biological, physical and social science in Oregon, and expected climate impacts. This inaugural assessment report is meant to act as a compendium of the relevant research on climate change and its impacts on the state of Oregon. This report draws on a large body of work on climate change impacts in the western U. S. from the Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington (CIG), and the California Climate Action Team.

Authors or Affiliated Users: Kathie D. Dello, Philip W. Mote

Resource Category: Assessments

 

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The Oregon Climate Change Adaptation Framework

December 2010

Oregon's Climate Change Adaptation Framework is the result of a collaborative effort between Oregon's state agencies with support from the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute. This report provides a framework for the continued development of strategies and plans to address future climate conditions in the state. Priority climate risks and their respective impacts on key sectors are outlined, followed by over 100 adaptation strategies for near- and long-term planning and implementation.   This framework identifies 11 key risks that are likely to occur.

Resource Category: Planning

 

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Connecticut's 2010 Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan Update

December 2010

This 2010 Update to Connecticut's Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan expands the 2007 plan to cover years 2010 - 2013. A good example of mainstreaming the consideration of climate change into existing planning efforts, this update discusses the projected impacts of climate change within each of the major sections of the plan addressing hurricanes, tornadoes, cyclones, precipitation, flooding, droughts, and wildland fires, and their relation to hazard mitigation as a whole.

Resource Category: Planning

 

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California Climate Adaptation Strategy - 2010 Progress Report

November 15, 2010

The 2009 Adaptation Strategy organized state agencies into seven resource-based sector working groups. Each working group identified preliminary adaptation strategies that could be implemented in the short term (by December 2010) and the longer term.

Resource Category: Monitoring and Reporting

 

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