Adapting to Climate Change: A Planning Guide for State Coastal Managers
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About This Report / White Paper
Adapting to Climate Change: A Planning Guide for State Coastal Managers aims to aid in the development and implementation of adaptation plans. The guide provides science-based information on climate change to set the context for adaptation planning and includes steps for setting up a planning process, assessing vulnerability, devising a strategy, and implementing the plan.
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This guide provides a step-by-step approach for incorporating climate change information into new or existing conservation plans. The guide's six steps focus on climate considerations and key resources specifically relevant to the coastal environment, including coastal watersheds.
Coastal impacts, adaptation, and vulnerabilities: a technical input to the 2013 National Climate Assessment
This report examines climate change impacts on coastal ecosystems and human economies and communities, as well as the kinds of scientific data, planning tools and resources that coastal communities and and resource managers need to help them adapt to these changes.
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The State of Marine and Coastal Adaptation in North America: A Synthesis of Emerging Ideas
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Forest Adaptation Resources: Climate Change Tools and Approaches for Land Managers
This second edition of the Forest Adaptation Resources provides a collection of resources designed to help forest managers incorporate climate change considerations into management and devise adaptation tactics. It was developed as part of the Climate Change Response Framework and reflects the expertise, creativity, and feedback of dozens of direct contributors and hundreds of users of the first edition over the last several years.
Integrating Climate Adaptation into Land Conservation: A Climate-Smart Framework for Land Trusts
This report aims to provide land trusts and other land conservation practitioners with a guide to integrating climate change projections and climate adaptation approaches into the process of private land conservation.
How to Consider Climate Change in Coastal Conservation
"How to Consider Climate Change in Coastal Conservation" is an online, self-guided resource that provides a step-by-step approach, worksheets and curated resources to create a new conservation plan or update an existing one that incorporates climate change information.
A Quick Guide to Adaptation Planning for Land Trusts
This document was created by the Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science in collaboration with the Land Trust Alliance. This Quick Guide was developed specifically to support land trusts and serve as a steppingstone for the process of adaptation planning.
Climate Change Response Framework
The Climate Change Response Framework is a collaborative, cross-boundary approach among scientists, managers and landowners to incorporate climate change considerations into natural resource management.
Climate Change Basics
This document reviews the basics of climate change, including impacts of climate change and the future impacts of climate change.