http://www.climateprep.org adaptation stories, lessons, and explorations Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:46:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 http://www.climateprep.org/2012/01/28/a-regional-approach-to-building-climate-resilience/ http://www.climateprep.org/2012/01/28/a-regional-approach-to-building-climate-resilience/#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:46:02 +0000 admin http://www.climateprep.org/?p=3005 Stacy Vynne, The Resource Innovation Group The question of how to design and implement effective adaptation measures is one that I think most adaptation practitioners are still struggling with, and will continue to struggle with, for many years to come. With hundreds of adaptation initiatives underway around the world, we are beginning to develop a [...]]]> http://www.climateprep.org/2012/01/28/a-regional-approach-to-building-climate-resilience/feed/ 0 http://www.climateprep.org/2011/12/22/shifting-course-climate-adaptation-for-water-management-institutions/ http://www.climateprep.org/2011/12/22/shifting-course-climate-adaptation-for-water-management-institutions/#comments Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:21:26 +0000 Eliot Levine http://www.climateprep.org/?p=2983 Eliot Levine, Jonathan Cook, Sarah Freeman (WWF-US) “Adaptation is not a specialist issue — it’s an issue of how decisions are made, and how to utilize the information provided by specialists in the process of decision making”. – Workshop Participant, 2011 World Water Week Water management institutions are tasked with the responsibility of ensuring that [...]]]> http://www.climateprep.org/2011/12/22/shifting-course-climate-adaptation-for-water-management-institutions/feed/ 1 http://www.climateprep.org/2011/12/06/ensuring-food-production-within-a-changing-climate-in-southern-africa/ http://www.climateprep.org/2011/12/06/ensuring-food-production-within-a-changing-climate-in-southern-africa/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:23:12 +0000 Freelance http://www.climateprep.org/?p=2935 Katharine Vincent, Kulima Integrated Development Solutions With COP17-CM7 underway in Durban, agriculture has a high place on the agenda.  The world’s population has just passed 7 billion people, and is due to reach 8 billion in 14 years’ time.  As if the challenge of population growth is not enough, agriculture is having to adapt to [...]]]> http://www.climateprep.org/2011/12/06/ensuring-food-production-within-a-changing-climate-in-southern-africa/feed/ 0 http://www.climateprep.org/2011/11/15/how-to-be-an-effective-science-advocate/ http://www.climateprep.org/2011/11/15/how-to-be-an-effective-science-advocate/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:27:16 +0000 admin http://www.climateprep.org/?p=2892 By Jonathan Randall, Millennium Challenge Corporation Imagine you are walking down the street on your way to your favorite sandwich shop.  You are dreaming about the amazing chicken sandwich you are about to order when all of a sudden an activist from Veggie Lovers Unite! hands you a flyer.On the front page it says “Switch [...]]]> http://www.climateprep.org/2011/11/15/how-to-be-an-effective-science-advocate/feed/ 0 http://www.climateprep.org/2011/05/31/thoughts-on-managing-change-from-jared-diamond-2/ http://www.climateprep.org/2011/05/31/thoughts-on-managing-change-from-jared-diamond-2/#comments Tue, 31 May 2011 22:18:16 +0000 Eliot Levine http://www.climateprep.org/?p=2766 http://www.climateprep.org/2011/05/31/thoughts-on-managing-change-from-jared-diamond-2/feed/ 3 http://www.climateprep.org/2011/05/25/chicago-a-leader-in-the-us-on-climate-change-adaptation/ http://www.climateprep.org/2011/05/25/chicago-a-leader-in-the-us-on-climate-change-adaptation/#comments Wed, 25 May 2011 21:21:28 +0000 Shaun Martin http://www.climateprep.org/?p=2746 By Shaun Martin, WWF-US Among US cities, it appears that Chicago is among the most advanced on introducing climate adaptive measures into their planning, according to this New York Times article. If current emissions trends continue, by 2070 Chicago could have a climate that resembles that of today’s southern states of Alabama and Louisiana, with [...]]]> http://www.climateprep.org/2011/05/25/chicago-a-leader-in-the-us-on-climate-change-adaptation/feed/ 0 http://www.climateprep.org/2011/05/09/taking-climate-change-policy-to-industry/ http://www.climateprep.org/2011/05/09/taking-climate-change-policy-to-industry/#comments Mon, 09 May 2011 15:57:43 +0000 admin http://www.climateprep.org/?p=2687 By Eric Perez, Queensland Seafood Industry Association Like all citizens of the world, Australians will face the impacts of climate change. In an iconic area such as the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) the impacts will be felt on both an ecosystem and a human level. There is near saturation in the print and television media [...]]]> http://www.climateprep.org/2011/05/09/taking-climate-change-policy-to-industry/feed/ 1 http://www.climateprep.org/2010/12/20/safe-islands-in-an-ocean-of-trouble-adaptation-in-the-maldives/ http://www.climateprep.org/2010/12/20/safe-islands-in-an-ocean-of-trouble-adaptation-in-the-maldives/#comments Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:24:08 +0000 Carina Bachofen http://www.climateprep.org/?p=2323 By Carina Bachofen and Edward Cameron The Maldives is a country with many pseudonyms and identities. The great Venetian explorer Marco Polo referred to the Maldives as the “flower of the Indies”; to the scores of holidaymakers and honeymooners the island nation is popularly known as the “pearls of the Indian Ocean”. In recent years, as the [...]]]> http://www.climateprep.org/2010/12/20/safe-islands-in-an-ocean-of-trouble-adaptation-in-the-maldives/feed/ 0 http://www.climateprep.org/2010/12/08/the-complicated-truth-about-climate-change-and-sea-level-rise/ http://www.climateprep.org/2010/12/08/the-complicated-truth-about-climate-change-and-sea-level-rise/#comments Thu, 09 Dec 2010 03:37:46 +0000 Freelance http://www.climateprep.org/?p=2299 By Eilif Ursin Reed Just like the swimming polar bears have become symbols for disappearing sea ice in the Arctic, the remote atolls of the Pacific and the Indian Ocean have become emblematic for the consequences of sea level rise. It just makes plain sense that islands on which the highest elevation is sometimes less than [...]]]> http://www.climateprep.org/2010/12/08/the-complicated-truth-about-climate-change-and-sea-level-rise/feed/ 1 http://www.climateprep.org/2010/11/04/what-price-adaptation-what-does-good-adaptation-look-like/ http://www.climateprep.org/2010/11/04/what-price-adaptation-what-does-good-adaptation-look-like/#comments Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:41:48 +0000 Carina Bachofen http://www.climateprep.org/?p=2174 By Carina Bachofen and Edward Cameron Assessments of the global cost of adaptation have varied drastically, ranging from $4-109 billion per year. The World Bank recently released the summary reports of the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change study, which estimates it will cost between $70-$100 billion each year from now until 2050. Why do cost estimates [...]]]> http://www.climateprep.org/2010/11/04/what-price-adaptation-what-does-good-adaptation-look-like/feed/ 0