PA42B:
Science to Inform Climate Resilience and Adaptation Decision-Making and Policy I


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Session ID#: 57791

Session Description:
Scientists across the United States and around the world are partnering with local and national government to inform decision-making and policy on how to adapt and become more resilient to the impacts of climate change and extreme weather. Multi-disciplinary teams of scientists, engineers, designers, and government officials are taking on the challenges of rising seas, heat waves, droughts and flooding. This session examines those unique partnerships with a focus on how science shaped planning, design and policy decisions. Lessons learned from model programs, including the NOAA Coastal Resilience Grants Program, the HUD National Disaster Resilience Competition, 100 Resilient Cities and Rebuild by Design as well as state initiatives around climate planning will be shared. The session also looks ahead to how earth science programs and research can and should adapt to fit the need for actionable information at a local scale.
Primary Convener:  Rebecca French, State of Connecticut, Department of Housing, Hartford, CT, United States
Conveners:  Louise Wells Bedsworth, Governor's Office of Planning & Research, Sacramento, CA, United States, Jessica Grannis, Georgetown University, Georgetown Climate Center, Washington, United States and Ian Wesley Bolliger, University of California Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Rebecca French, State of Connecticut, Department of Housing, Hartford, CT, United States
Chairs:  Rebecca French, Connecticut Department of Housing, Hartford, CT, United States, Louise Wells Bedsworth, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Ian Wesley Bolliger, University of California Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group, Berkeley, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Rebecca French, Connecticut Department of Housing, Hartford, CT, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • GH - GeoHealth
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0230 Impacts of climate change: human health [GEOHEALTH]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4321 Climate impact [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4327 Resilience [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Examples of Climate-Informed Decisionmaking Across Sectors and Levels of Government (Invited) (381039)
Vicki Arroyo, Georgetown Climate Center, Washington, DC, United States
Implications of land ice loss on present and future sea level from global to local scales (Invited) (350997)
Anny A Cazenave, Université de Toulouse, LEGOS (CNES/CNRS/IRD/UT), Toulouse, France
Co-production of science for decision making: the NOAA RISA Network (409694)
Caitlin Fiona Simpson, NOAA Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States and Chelsea Combest-Friedman, NOAA Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in the United States Ski Industry: Linking science, advocacy, and policy (Invited) (379947)
Elizabeth A Burakowski, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, Marca Hagenstad, Hagenstad Consulting, Nederland, CO, United States and Rebecca Hill, Colorado State University, Agricultural and Resource Economics, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Users and Uses of SLR Information: A Typology (421986)
Maya K Buchanan, Climate Central, Sea level rise program, Princeton, NJ, United States, Matt Campo, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, Robert E Kopp, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, United States, Robert J Lempert, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, United States, Mr. David H Behar, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and Practitioner Exchange for Effective Response to Sea Level Rise (PEERS), San Francisco, United States and Michael Oppenheimer, Princeton University, School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton, NJ, United States
Designed Experiments for Coastal Adaptation: Engineering and Implementing Urban Design Projects as Research Tools guiding the Construction of Urban Floodplains (Invited) (462528)
Alexander J. Felson, Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and School of Architecture, New Haven, CT, United States and Urban Ecology and Design Lab
The Community and Watershed Resilience Program: Science and Partnerships to Support Resilience (Invited) (451944)
Ashley Conrad-Saydah, Organization Not Listed, Washington, United States and Louise Wells Bedsworth, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Adapting to the Town-Scale Impacts of Climate Change in Connecticut (Invited) (355723)
James O'Donnell1, Joseph MacDougald2, William Rath2, Jennifer E Dick O'Donnell3 and Rebecca French4, (1)University of Connecticut, Department of Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States, (2)University of Connecticut School of Law, Center for Energy and Environmental Law, Hartford, CT, United States, (3)University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States, (4)State of Connecticut, Department of Housing, Hartford, CT, United States
All Resilience is Local: Science, Policy, and Decision-making in Hampton Roads (Invited) (352998)
Morris Foster, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States

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