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7 Place-Based Adaptation Cases
Pages 93-102

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... Key questions included what the critical issues are and how they are identified, what is known and needs to be known, how knowledge needs change over time, whether enough is known for effective decision making, and how to maximize social and economic benefits. Each RISA regional team offered lessons in coordination.
From page 94...
... Nierenberg said that the program was always intended to inform the development of something like a climate service. The program leaders originally imagined that the RISA teams together would, with partners at all scales of government, develop an overall research agenda that would advance knowledge for climate adaptation.
From page 95...
... An emerging area in the program involves experimenting with visualization tools, scenario planning, and other methods to communicate information that includes uncertainty to stakeholders. For example, in the Colorado River basin, there are various stream flow projections for midcentury.
From page 96...
... URBAN CLIMATE ADAPTATION PLANNING: LESSONS FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH JoAnn Carmin2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology JoAnn Carmin began by saying that her comments may be reiterating what has already been said, but on a different scale. Her research concerns urban environmental governance: how cities make sense of climate impacts and how that links to action.
From page 97...
... People in the cities go to conferences, conduct local research studies, and look to universities and research institutes to extend local capacity and generate local knowledge. They build networks of government and research personnel and develop research agendas as a means of exchanging ideas and knowledge.
From page 98...
... There is a need to foster multidirectional exchanges between the North and the South. In the discussion, Stewart Cohen reported on the Columbia Basin Trust, a model from British Columbia that works to enable small towns to
From page 99...
... Neil Adger asked whether the city planners involved in adaptation are also involved in issues of reducing emissions and changing urban form. Carmin replied that urban planning has little influence in many of these cities.
From page 100...
... After California passed Assembly Bill 32, when the state put a mitigation plan in place, people started asking what they should do about adaptation. She said that it is difficult to articulate the climate adaptation challenge to nonscientists.
From page 101...
... Luers raised the following key questions: Today in the information age, how do people access and gain trust in climate information? Is there a role for the web and wiki environments to connect with scientific assessments?


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