climate change
USFS Releases Interactive Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Map
The United States Forest Service released an interactive map that charts climate change vulnerability assessments. These assessments include information on sensitivity, exposure, and adaptive capacity of each assessed system.
Continue ReadingWebinar Recap and Recording: Southeast Climate Update + New Climate Normals
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Getting Our Heads Around the New Fire Environment
A recent article by Joint Fire Science Program Board Chair Dana Skelly discusses how to improve risk assessment and on the ground choices in the face of a wildland fire environment that grows increasingly extreme due to climate change.
Continue ReadingNew USFS Report: Research Improves Climate-Smart Management of America’s Forests and Grasslands
In response to the new administration’s focus on climate change, Forest Service R&D produced Research Improves Climate-smart Management of America’s Forests and Grasslands, a special report that highlights the agency’s contributions to climate science and land management.
Continue ReadingPrescribed Fire & Climate Change – Are We Prepared?
A new blog post on the Southeast Prescribed Fire Update addresses why wildland fire professionals need to begin addressing climate change impacts now, and some resources to help do so.
Continue ReadingNew SFE Fact Sheet: Climate Change and Wildland Fire
Southern Fire Exchange has released a new fact sheet, Wildland Fire and Climate Change Impacts in the Southern United States.
Continue ReadingPartner Webinar: Disaster Recovery During a Global Pandemic
The Global Change Fellows of the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center have congregated a second multi-disciplinary panel to address how COVID-19 has affected disaster recovery and community resilience strategies. The seminar will be structured as a panel discussion among scientists and professionals from the Eastern and Western regions of the United States, and the Caribbean. They will bring their expertise and experience as they answer questions provided by the Fellows and audience members. Our panelists will explore the changes and adjustments to disaster recovery due to COVID-19 and discuss the implications for future actions on disaster recovery and community resilience.
Continue ReadingPartner Webinar: Incorporating Cultural Intelligence to Develop Effective Climate Adaptation Planning
This webinar is an installment of the Topics in Climate Change Adaptation Planning webinar series hosted by the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (ITEP) Tribes & Climate Change Program in collaboration with the North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center.
Cultural Intelligence (CQ) is the ability to relate and work effectively with people from different cultural backgrounds and goes beyond existing notions of cultural sensitivity and awareness. In culturally diverse situations, CQ predicts:
- Personal Adjustment and Adaptability
- Judgement and Decision Making
- Negotiation Effectiveness
- Trust, Idea Sharing, and Innovation
- Leadership Effectiveness
- Profitability and Cost-Savings
Tune in to learn more about cultural intelligence and how it can be used as a tool to enhance working relationships between tribes and supporting agencies to bolster the climate adaption planning process.
Register for the webinar here.
Continue ReadingNeighborhoods at Risk Tool
Neighborhoods at Risk is designed to meet community planning needs to protect people and property from the impacts of climate change. A free, web-based tool, Neighborhoods at Risk generates customized, interactive maps and reports that describe characteristics of potentially vulnerable neighborhoods (by census tract). Additionally, Neighborhoods at Risk provides community-level climate projections for temperature and precipitation.
Neighborhoods at Risk can be used to prioritize capital improvements, conduct vulnerability assessments, inform land use and policy decisions, and support FEMA Hazard Mitigation Plans and Carbon Disclosure Project reporting.
Neighborhoods at Risk reports are based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau, FEMA, Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium, First Street Foundation, and the Northeast Regional Climate Center’s Applied Climate Information System.
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