PA52A:
Learning by Doing: Building Community Resilience Through Climate Assessment I


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Session ID#: 57800

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 session will highlight examples of how past climate assessments have been used and how the assessment process builds networks across communities. Presentations 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. Presenters 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:

Toward Climate-Safe Infrastructure in California: Closing the Gap Between Climate Science, Decision-Making and Engineering (355119)
Susanne C Moser, S. Moser Research & Consulting, Hadley, MA, United States
The Ouranos 2015 Synthesis on Climate Change Knowledge in Quebec: The Journey of a Regional Contribution to an Ensemble of Complementing Climate Change Assessments. (408513)
Hélène Côté, Robert Siron, Travis Logan and Isabelle Charron, Ouranos, Montreal, QC, Canada
Climate change in the Hoosier State: Using an impacts assessment to expand awareness and start the conversation in Indiana (436094)
Jeffrey S Dukes, Purdue University, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, West Lafayette, IN, United States and Melissa Widhalm, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Use and Synthesis of the Third National Climate Assessment for the Great Lakes Region (410772)
Jenna L Jorns1, Maria Carmen Lemos2, William J Baule3 and Laura Briley1, (1)University of Michigan, Great Lakes Integrated Sciences + Assessments, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Michigan, School for Environment and Sustainability, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States
Knowledge co-production helps a national assessment to have local relevance in the Pacific Islands (382079)
Zena N Grecni, East-West Center, Honolulu, HI, United States and Victoria W Keener, Arizona State University, Pacific Research on Island Solutions for Adaptation (RISA), Tempe, AZ, United States
The Use of NCA3 Sea Level Rise Projections in Public-facing Reports and Tools (455916)
Kristina Dahl1, Erika Spanger-Siegfried2, Astrid Caldas2, Shana Udvardy2 and Rachel Cleetus3, (1)Union of Concerned Scientists, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, (3)Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, United States
Locally relevant, science-based tools and information to help communities and businesses build climate resilience (447445)
Fred Lipschultz, US Global Change Research Program, Washington D.C., DC, United States and David Drew Herring, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Enhancing Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa through Climate Vulnerability Assessments (457274)
Alex Anthony Apotsos, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, United States and Tegan Blaine, U.S. Agency for International Development, Bureau for Africa, Washington, DC, United States

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