Vulnerability and Risk Assessment 1: Local Climate Impact Profile (LCLIP) - a quick approach to assessing local vulnerability - January 19, 2010
Handouts and Recordings
All files are pdf unless otherwise noted.
Agenda
Alliance for Resilient Cities Introduction - Jennifer Forkes, Clean Air Partnership
Approaches to Assessing Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Planning - Jennifer Penney, Director of Research, Clean Air Partnership
Local Climate Impact Profiles: looking at the consequences of current weather as a way in to adaptation to climate change for UK Local Authorities - Liz Greenhalgh, Project Officer, Local Authorities, United Kingdom's Climate Impacts Programme (UK CIP)
Webinar Recording (Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro Meeting)
Carbon Footprint
Recommended Resources
Preparing for Climate Change: A Guidebook for Local, Regional, and State Governments (Chapter 8 and Chapter 9) The Climate Impacts Group, King County,Washington, and ICLEI (2007)
Climate Change 2007: Working Group II: Impacts, Adaption and Vulnerability (Chapter 2: New Assesment Methods and the Characterisation of Future Conditions). IPCC (2007)
LCLIP: A local climate impacts profile. UK Climate Impacts Programme
Resources from Dr. Jennifer Penney Presentation
Web-based Resources
Washington Climate Change Impacts Assessment, Climate Impacts Group, 2009.
Climate Change Impacts & Adaptation: A Canadian Perspective, NRCAN, 2004
City of Iqaluit Climate Change Impacts Infrastructure Risks and Adaptive Capacity Project, Debbie Nielsen, 2007
Climate Smart Climate Change Risk Management Strategy for Halifax Regional Municipality, 2006
Climate Change Human Development in Viet Nam, Peter Chaudhry and Greet Ruysschaert, 2008
Climate Change Planning Tools for First Nations, Guidebook 5, Taking Adaptive Action, Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources, 2006
Dawson Community Adaptation Project: Community Climate Change Adaptation Plan, Draft 2, Dawson Adaptation Project Team, 2009
Forest Resilience, Biodiversity, and Climate Change. A synthesis of the biodiversity/resilience/stability relationship in forest ecosystems. Thompson, I., et al. Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, UNEP, 2009
Assessing and managing resilience in social-ecological systems: A practitioners workbook, Volume 1, Resilience Alliance, 2007
Regional Flood Resilience Assessment in Donting Lake Region of China, Jing Liu Acadamy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management, Beijing Normal University, 2008
Adapting to climate change: Lessons for London, London Climate Change Partnership, 2006
Ahead of the Storm: Preparing Toronto for Climate Change, City of Toronto, 2008
Integrated Assessment for Effective Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for New York State, NYSERDA, 2009
Academic Journal Articles
Füssel (2007). Adaptation planning for climate change. Sustainable Science 2:265-275
Smit & Wandel (2006). Adaptation, adaptive capacity & vulnerability. Global Environmental Change 16:282-292
