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Los Angeles Resilience Strategy plan cover
Los Angeles, CA Resilience Strategy

  • Boston cityscape. Bert Kaufmann, Roermond, Netherlands. CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), via Wikimedia Commons

    • Luck Is Not a Policy We Can Count On: Boston Takes a Proactive Approach to Climate Adaptation
    thermal image of a neighborhood street

  • Shu Sun University of Oklahoma Gibbs College of Architecture

    • Mapping the Urban Heat Island in Oklahoma City

  • Michael Montoya, Sovereign Nations Service Corps, Mescalero Apache Tribe. Used with permission.

    • Mescalero Apache Tribe Adapts to a Warmer and Drier Climate

  • Lee Amoroso, U.S. Geological Survey

    • Navajo Nation: Hotter, Drier Climate Puts Sand Dunes on the Move
    Newtok Village in Need of Urgent Relocation
    Newtok to Mertarvik
    StPaul-plan-cover
    St Paul, MN Climate Action & Resilience Plan
    Phoenix Climate Action Plan cover
    Phoenix, AZ Climate Action Plan
    aerial image of the Bighorn Reservoir

  • Bureau of Reclamation Research and Development Office

    • Pilot Study of Reservoir Sustainability Options: Bighorn Reservoir
    city of Asheville plan cover

  • city of Asheville

    • Planning for Climate Resilience—City of Asheville, North Carolina

  • Demolition of the Washington Post building, 2016. Photo by Victoria Pickering, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/

    • Preparing for La Niña
    landscape of burnt sage

  • Kreig Rasmussen/USFS

    • Prescribed Burning on the Old Woman Plateau

  • The sun sets over the Queensborough Bridge, New York City. Image credit: Chris Goldberg. CC BY-NC 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/, via Flickr

    • Protecting People from Sweltering City Summers
    sheep grazing in a field

  • Ariel Léger/University of Arizona

    • Regenerative Agriculture in the Arid Southwest at Oatman Flats Ranch
    village marker and rock formation

  • CAKE, Shishmaref Erosion and Relocation Coalition, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Alaska

    • Relocating the Native Village of Shishmaref, Alaska Due to Coastal Erosion