Adapting Your Work to Climate Change: A Framework

Author/Source: Wendy Smith, World Wildlife Fund; Lara Hansen, Ecoadapt

From Session 1-Climate Change Impacts on Watersheds: What We Know, of Track B-Warming Watersheds at River Network's Winter Training 2010, Wendy Smith of World Wildlife Fund explains solutions for your organizations work to adapt to climate change, in a presentation Adapting Your Work to Climate Change: A Framework compiled by Lara Hansen of Ecoadapt.

Global climate change will reveal itself through water by altering hydrologic cycles and increasing the likelihood of more extreme weather events, such as floods, droughts and hot spells. However, the specific changes experienced in a community will vary from place to place. This presentation will give an overview of how climate change will impact water supplies throughout the United States and explore different types of adaptation strategies to address these changes and how climate change can be incorporated into planning.