Background
The NOAA Office of Habitat Conservation is actively involved in helping municipalities incorporate sea level rise projections into future management plans. Having assisted regional planners to incorporate climate change into their decisions, NOAA staff realized that there was another group of decision makers that work in the natural environment that may be trying to plan for climate change. NOAA staff conducted a preliminary, internal survey of resource managers to assess the need for climate change adaptation assistance and it became apparent that resource managers needed help.
Implementation
In 2010, NOAA’s Office of Habitat Conservation hosted a series of regional meetings targeted at federal agency and state-level habitat managers and selected nongovernmental organizations. The goals of the regional meetings were to:
- Build the capacity of managers to conserve coastal habitats in a changing climate, including protection and restoration of land to increase the resilience/adaptation potential to climate change; and
- Identify key needs and solutions to help advance the protection of coastal habitats into the future.
Citation
Feifel, K. (2021). NOAA 2010 Workshop Series: Habitat Conservation in a Changing Climate [Case study on a project of NOAA's Office of Habitat Conservation]. Version 2.0. Product of EcoAdapt’s State of Adaptation Program. (Last updated January 2021)
This case study was originally published on the EcoAdapt Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange.
