Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Planning for New England Communities: First Steps and Next Steps [Report]

Authors

Charles S. Colgan, University of Southern Maine. Muskie School of Public Service, Maine Center for Business and Economic Research
Jack D. Kartez, University of Southern Maine, Muskie School of Public Service, New England Environmental Finance Center
Martha P. Sheils, University of Southern Maine, Muskie School of Public Service, New England Environmental Finance Center

Document Type

Report

Publication Date

2016

Abstract

New challenges arise from weather events that are driven by a less stable climate. The key difference between what communities already plan for and climate adaptation planning is the level of uncertainty about how impacts may change in the future and the potentially enormous and devastating damages that a community may sustain.

Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Planning for New England Communities: First Steps and Next Steps (2016) presents an overview of that task, with links to the rapidly expanding guidelines and tools available to local governments and a suggested way of thinking about this responsibility as an extension of what local governments are already doing.

Comments

Learn more at the project website: Climate Change Adaptation and Resiliency Planning for New England Communities

Recommended Citation

Colgan, Charles S.; Kartez, Jack D.; and Sheils, Martha P., "Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Planning for New England Communities: First Steps and Next Steps [Report]" (2016). Climate Change. 7.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/climatechange/7