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| A Practitioner’s Guide to Climate Change Adaptation in Ontario’s Ecosystems. |
Integrating climate change adaptation into natural resource management requires an understanding of the known and potential impacts of climate change and the corresponding vulnerability of, and risks to, ecosystems and the people who rely on them.
This guide introduces the concepts of climate change adaptation, vulnerability, and risk. It also describes vulnerability and risk assessment tools and techniques, and a framework that can be used to support adaptive management in a rapidly changing climate. Ultimately, the guide seeks to assist natural resource managers to identify ways that climate change vulnerabilities and risks can be integrated into decision-making processes that include adaptation action plans, strategies, and policies.
You May...
1) Download A Practitioner’s Guide to Climate Change Adaptation in Ontario’s Ecosystems
(PDF 1.9Mb)
2) Access individual worksheets from the Guide to use them online and print them, or simply print
them for a group exercise: (All worksheets are in PDF format; the largest file size is 483 Kb)
о Worksheet 1.1: Selecting the Study Area
о Worksheet 1.2: Selecting Themes and Indicators for Analysis
о Worksheet 1.3: Building Your Project Team
о Worksheet 1.4: Identifying Partners and Stakeholders
о Worksheet 2.1: Assessing Current Exposure, Sensitivity and Adaptive Capacity
о Worksheet 2.2: Describing Current Non-climatic Stresses
о Worksheet 3.1: Determining Climate Model Needs
о Worksheet 4.1: Describing Future Exposure, Sensitivity, and Adaptive Capacity
о Worksheet 4.2: Describing Other Future Stresses
о Worksheet 4.3: Estimating Overall Future Vulnerability
о Worksheet 4.4: Assessing Risk
о Worksheet 5.1: Developing Adaptation Options
о Worksheet 5.2: Evaluating Adaptation Options
3) Access all of the worksheets in one workbook. (PDF 1.6Mb)
4) Learn more about the Practitioner’s Guide by watching a recorded webinar from February 2012
hosted by the Ontario Centre for Climate Impacts and Adaptation Resources.
The worksheets will open in all browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Apple Safari as well as Adobe reader; available for download here
