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56 AppEndix C Literature Review Sources Projections of climate change and its impacts National Research Council, Warming World: Impacts by Degree, Washington, D.C., 2011. This booklet was published in 2011 by the NRC of the National Academies and written by Robert Henson.
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57 Potential Impacts of Climate Change on US Transportation, Special Report 290, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2008. This report was published in 2008 and represents the work product of a 13 member committee of experts formed by the Division of Earth and Life Sciences to conduct research requested by the Executive Committee of the TRB.
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58 resilience to track results; (L) reviewing and updating the plan and its assumptions.
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59 safety, and on populations vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. Implementing Climate Change Adaptation Planning in Accordance with Executive Order 13514: Federal Agency Climate Change Adaptation Planning, Mar.
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60 lists, for example, the need to develop a "Project Initiative Document (PID) ," there is a set of "adaptive responses" that suggest a corresponding action with respect to adaptation.
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61 Recommendations were also made for the passage of combined energy and climate legislation, as well as executive policy action to address climate adaptation in the NEPA process and to incorporate climate risk analysis into Federal infrastructure investment policies. A Transportation Research Program for Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change and Conserving Energy: Special Report 299, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2009.
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62 assessments. The article also notes that aircraft operators can adapt quickly, given the mobility of their assets, whereas air navigation infrastructure is too fixed to adapt quickly.
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63 affected by projections in three time horizons: 2020, 2050s, and 2080s. This article describes the challenges in undertaking this evaluation of vulnerability and the way climate change projections can inform design guidelines, maintenance programs, and long-term planning.
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64 FHWA, it does not include reports or other documents focused on airports, although their information and guidance can be utilized by airports. Literature Review: Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment, Risk Assessment, and Adaptation Approaches, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, D.C., 2009, 32 pp.
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65 framework it outlines can be part of a visioning process that now and later inform the development and evaluation of alternative improvement strategies. It does list general areas for focus and consideration, including supplementing long-term plans with consideration of climate change horizons, ensuring review of the connectivity of the intermodal system, and providing an integrated analysis of impacts and risk wherein climate change per se is not analyzed separately from other non-climate stressors and conditions.
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66 • Provides support to health facilities • Provides support to offshore facilities • The report concluded that 2 of 17 facilities were critical airport network assets, based on these criteria. Adapting to Rising Tides: Community Based Adaptation Planning, Preprint, NOAA, Coastal Services Center, Charleston, S.C., 2011.
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67 Larsen, P., et al., "Estimating Future Costs for Alaska Public Infrastructure at Risk from Climate Change," Global Environmental Change, Vol.
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68 and support strategic planning decisions. Next, they conducted an economic analysis that would help explain how and when climate change impacts would impact the demand-side variables supporting tourism development.
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