SUMMARY

Preparing for Climate Change: A Guidebook for Local, Regional, and State Governments is designed to help local, regional, and state governments prepare for climate change by recommending a detailed, easy-to-understand process for climate change preparedness based on familiar resources and tools.

Steps described in the guidebook include:

• creating a climate change preparedness team
• identifying community vulnerabilities to climate change
• identifying, selecting, and implementing adaptation options.

GOALS

Questions addressed in the guidebook include the following:

1. How do you scope out the problems of climate change across sectors of your community?

2. How do you raise and maintain support to prepare for climate change?

3. Whom should you include on a climate change preparedness team?

4. What are climate change planning areas, and how do you identify them for your community?

5. How do you identify your sensitivity, adaptive capacity, and risk to climate change impacts – i.e., conduct a vulnerability assessment and a risk assessment ?

6. How do identify your climate change priority planning areas?

7. How do you establish a vision and guiding principles for a climate resilient community in these priority planning areas?

8. How do you begin to develop climate change preparedness goals and actions in these priority planning areas?

9. How do you develop a climate change preparedness plan?

10. How do you ensure that you have the right implementation tools to take your preparedness actions?

11. How do you develop measures of resilience to track your progress and update your plans over time, to ensure that your efforts are really making your community more resilient to climate change?

ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION AND TEACHING MATERIALS

Preparing for Climate Change: A Guidebook for Local, Regional, and State Governments is designed to help local, regional, and state governments prepare for climate change by recommending a detailed, easy-to-understand process for climate change preparedness based on familiar resources and tools.

Steps described in the guidebook include:

• creating a climate change preparedness team
• identifying community vulnerabilities to climate change
• identifying, selecting, and implementing adaptation options.

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Preparing for Climate Change: A Guidebook for Local, Regional, and State Governments is designed to help local, regional, and state governments prepare for climate change by recommending a detailed, easy-to-understand process for climate change preparedness based on familiar resources and tools.

TEACHING NOTES / CONTEXT FOR USE

This guidebook is available as a resource to communities planning for climate change and/or those supporting community efforts to adapt to climate change.

ASSESSMENT

This question is not relevant to this resource.

REFERENCES AND RESOURCES

The guidebook was written by the Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington in partnership with King County, Washington, and published by ICLEI- Local Governments for Sustainability.

SHORT DESCRIPTION

Preparing for Climate Change: A Guidebook for Local, Regional, and State Governments is designed to help local, regional, and state governments prepare for climate change.