Showing posts with label adaptation plan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adaptation plan. Show all posts
Monday, March 28, 2011
Congratulations Fresno County on Your New Adaptation Plan!
Read the 50-page adaptation plan "Integrated Strategies for a Vibrant and Sustainable Fresno County" (March 2011) here.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
San Luis Obispo County Climate Plan: "We've never been here before."
Only two counties in the State of California have detailed climate change adaptation plans in the works: San Luis Obispo is one. Last Thursday they held a community workshop on the plan. It is primarily a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but I know researchers focused on climate adaptation have been involved in this planning process, including one of California's leading lights on adaptation Susanne Moser.
From the article "County to Fight Against Climate Change" (David Sneed, Feb. 13, 2011, SanLuisObispo.com - The Tribune):
The county is ...one of only two in California to have had a detailed climate adaptation study done. It looked at the various impacts climate change will have on the county and how to prepare for them.
The study was headed by the Local Government Commission, an organization that advocates centralized community and economic planning based on Ahwahnee Indian principles.
“San Luis Obispo County will be setting the marker for other communities,” [Michael] Boswell [a Cal Poly city planning professor] said.
Environmentalist and government watchdog Eric Greening of Atascadero urged county planners to concentrate on reducing emissions rather than adaptation.
“We’ve got to stop being so full of ourselves,” he said. “We haven’t the faintest idea what we are going to have to do to adapt to climate change. We’ve never been here before.”
It sounds like a good reason why you should focus on BOTH adaptation and reducing emissions (and, personally, I believe reducing emissions is a long-term adaptation strategy).
The article doesn't state which is the other California state county creating a detailed adaptation plan, but here is a November 2010 list (PDF) compiled by the Governor's Office of Planning and Research (OPR) with links to 63 different California city and county, and 36 relevant non-Californian climate planning efforts. Most of these are concerning greenhouse gas reductions, but those are the plans where you can find most U.S. adaptation efforts.
Susanne Moser is working with both Fresno and San Luis Obispo counties on their adaptation plans, so this article might be referring to Fresno as the other county with a plan.
Read more about Fresno's adaptation plan here.
Read more about the San Luis Obispo adaptation plan here.
Read more about Susanne Moser's work supporting climate adaptation in California here.
P.S. If you don't know what the Ahwahnee Principles are, you are probably not a city planner. This author incorrectly refers to them as the Ahwahnee Indian Principles. They are a modern (1991) invention of some California city planners at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite. Read more about their invention here.
The principles basically emphasize developing neighborhoods so that homes are located within walking distance of retail shops, schools, and public transit, and other social and economic efficiency principles. No "Ahwahnee Indians" were involved in the drafting of the principles, from what I can discern.
Read the “Ahwahnee Principles for Climate Change" here (PDF), published in 2008 by the Local Government Commission. Sacramento, CA.
From the article "County to Fight Against Climate Change" (David Sneed, Feb. 13, 2011, SanLuisObispo.com - The Tribune):
The county is ...one of only two in California to have had a detailed climate adaptation study done. It looked at the various impacts climate change will have on the county and how to prepare for them.
The study was headed by the Local Government Commission, an organization that advocates centralized community and economic planning based on Ahwahnee Indian principles.
“San Luis Obispo County will be setting the marker for other communities,” [Michael] Boswell [a Cal Poly city planning professor] said.
Environmentalist and government watchdog Eric Greening of Atascadero urged county planners to concentrate on reducing emissions rather than adaptation.
“We’ve got to stop being so full of ourselves,” he said. “We haven’t the faintest idea what we are going to have to do to adapt to climate change. We’ve never been here before.”
It sounds like a good reason why you should focus on BOTH adaptation and reducing emissions (and, personally, I believe reducing emissions is a long-term adaptation strategy).
The article doesn't state which is the other California state county creating a detailed adaptation plan, but here is a November 2010 list (PDF) compiled by the Governor's Office of Planning and Research (OPR) with links to 63 different California city and county, and 36 relevant non-Californian climate planning efforts. Most of these are concerning greenhouse gas reductions, but those are the plans where you can find most U.S. adaptation efforts.
Susanne Moser is working with both Fresno and San Luis Obispo counties on their adaptation plans, so this article might be referring to Fresno as the other county with a plan.
Read more about Fresno's adaptation plan here.
Read more about the San Luis Obispo adaptation plan here.
Read more about Susanne Moser's work supporting climate adaptation in California here.
P.S. If you don't know what the Ahwahnee Principles are, you are probably not a city planner. This author incorrectly refers to them as the Ahwahnee Indian Principles. They are a modern (1991) invention of some California city planners at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite. Read more about their invention here.
The principles basically emphasize developing neighborhoods so that homes are located within walking distance of retail shops, schools, and public transit, and other social and economic efficiency principles. No "Ahwahnee Indians" were involved in the drafting of the principles, from what I can discern.
Read the “Ahwahnee Principles for Climate Change" here (PDF), published in 2008 by the Local Government Commission. Sacramento, CA.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
The policies I'm analyzing in my thesis, at this point...
At this point I'm examining and analyzing fourteen government policy documents for my thesis on climate change adaptation policies in the North Pacific.
Et voila, links (mostly to PDFs):
• Canada: From Impacts to Adaptation: Canada in a Changing Climate 2007 (2008).
- British Columbia: Preparing for Climate Change: British Columbia’s Adaptation Strategy (February 2010).
- Yukon: Yukon Government Climate Change Action Plan (February 2009).
• Japan: Wise Adaptation to Climate Change (June 2008).
• The People’s Republic of China: China’s National Climate Change Programme (June 2007).
• The Russian Federation: Climate Doctrine of the Russian Federation (December 2009).
• The United States of America: Progress Report of the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force (March 2010).
- Alaska: Alaska’s Climate Change Strategy: Addressing Impacts in Alaska (January 2010).
- California: 2009 California Climate Adaptation Strategy (December 2009).
---Oakland, California: City of Oakland Draft Energy and Climate Action Plan (April 2010).
- Hawaii: A Framework for Climate Change Adaptation in Hawaii (November 2009).
- Oregon: Final Report to the Governor: A Framework for Addressing Rapid Climate Change (January 2008).
- Washington: Leading the Way on Climate Change: The Challenge of Our Time (February 2008).
---King County, Washington: King County 2009 Climate Report (February 2010).
These are all policy documents produced by advisory groups or environmental ministries/ departments, except for the Russian "Climate Doctrine," which came directly out of the office of the president, signed only by Medvedev. I'm not sure what that means, but it's not at all a bad document in terms of laying out a vision for climate change adaptation. For mitigation of climate change... now, that's another matter. Oil producing nations seem keener on adaptation than on mitigation, I'm realizing. But that's another post for another day.
Et voila, links (mostly to PDFs):
• Canada: From Impacts to Adaptation: Canada in a Changing Climate 2007 (2008).
- British Columbia: Preparing for Climate Change: British Columbia’s Adaptation Strategy (February 2010).
- Yukon: Yukon Government Climate Change Action Plan (February 2009).
• Japan: Wise Adaptation to Climate Change (June 2008).
• The People’s Republic of China: China’s National Climate Change Programme (June 2007).
• The Russian Federation: Climate Doctrine of the Russian Federation (December 2009).
• The United States of America: Progress Report of the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force (March 2010).
- Alaska: Alaska’s Climate Change Strategy: Addressing Impacts in Alaska (January 2010).
- California: 2009 California Climate Adaptation Strategy (December 2009).
---Oakland, California: City of Oakland Draft Energy and Climate Action Plan (April 2010).
- Hawaii: A Framework for Climate Change Adaptation in Hawaii (November 2009).
- Oregon: Final Report to the Governor: A Framework for Addressing Rapid Climate Change (January 2008).
- Washington: Leading the Way on Climate Change: The Challenge of Our Time (February 2008).
---King County, Washington: King County 2009 Climate Report (February 2010).
These are all policy documents produced by advisory groups or environmental ministries/ departments, except for the Russian "Climate Doctrine," which came directly out of the office of the president, signed only by Medvedev. I'm not sure what that means, but it's not at all a bad document in terms of laying out a vision for climate change adaptation. For mitigation of climate change... now, that's another matter. Oil producing nations seem keener on adaptation than on mitigation, I'm realizing. But that's another post for another day.
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