Approaches to Evaluating Climate Change Impacts on Species: A Guide to Initiating the Adaptation Planning Process
Assessing the impact of climate change on species and associated management objectives is a critical initial step for engaging in the adaptation planning process. Multiple approaches are available. While all possess limitations to their application associated with the uncertainties inherent in the data and models that inform their results, conducting and incorporating impact assessments into the adaptation planning process at least provides some basis for making resource management decisions that are becoming inevitable in the face of rapidly changing climate.
Adaptation Strategies Guide for Water Utilities
Adapting your system and operations to climate change challenges requires consideration and planning. How
ever, adaptation planning is not necessarily a new effort, distinct from other utility practices. Because adaptation strategies can often provide multiple benefits, adaptation planning can be integrated into emergency response planning, capacity development, capital investment planning, water supply and demand planning, conservation practices, and infrastructure maintenance.
Adapting to Climate Change – A Risk-based Guide for Local Governments
Adapting to climate change may be one of the greatest challenges facing northern communities during the next century. This Guide has been written to primarily to assist local and regional governments understand the risks of predicted climate impacts and how to manage them. The Guide should also be useful for health officials, emergency managers, and businesses.
Risk management is a process for selecting the best course of action in uncertain situations. It does this by helping us identify, understand, analyze and communicate about risks. The Guide follows the framework for risk management described in the Canadian national standard “Risk Management: Guidelines for Decision-makers” (CAN/CSA- Q850-01)
