PA53B:
Learning by Doing: Building Community Resilience Through Climate Assessment Posters


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Session ID#: 48986

Session Description:
Climate assessments range from global to local and are intended to be used by practitioners, decision-makers, educators, and other stakeholders across those scales. The process of developing climate assessments often involves stakeholder engagement and can result in the co-production of assessment inputs. This poster session will highlight examples of how past climate assessments have been used and how the assessment process builds networks across communities. Posters will discuss how climate assessments (at any scale) have: 1) informed planning or decision-making within their community or organization, 2) been used to develop new tools or products, and/or 3) been developed through engagement with user communities. Posters are also encouraged to discuss barriers faced in using or producing climate assessments and how they’ve been overcome. Information from this session can benefit organizations and communities facing climate-related challenges and can inform the development of future assessments to improve their usability.
Primary Convener:  Kristin Lewis, US Global Change Research Program, Contractor, Washington, DC, DC, United States
Convener:  Allyza Lustig, US Global Change Research Program / ICF, Washington D.C., United States
Primary Liaison:  Kristin Lewis, US Global Change Research Program, Contractor, Washington, DC, DC, United States
Chairs:  Kristin Lewis, US Global Change Research Program, Contractor, Washington, DC, DC, United States and Allyza Lustig, US Global Change Research Program / ICF, Washington D.C., United States
OSPA Liaison:  Kristin Lewis, US Global Change Research Program, Contractor, Washington, DC, DC, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]
6620 Science policy [PUBLIC ISSUES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Coastal Resilience Mapping with Local Communities in Alaska’s North Slope: Establishing Observing Networks and Usability in the Process (464870)
Michael Brady, Unaffiliated, Alexandria, VA, United States
Implementation of climate change adaptation actions on western U.S. national forests (381212)
Jessica Halofsky, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States and David L Peterson, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Seattle, United States

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