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Buncombe County, NC Comprehensive Plan
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  • Top: Buildings at Old Town (Unsplash, Ryan Ledbetter, 2021) Bottom, from left to right: Electric bus (DASH), construction, bikes and trolleys (City of Alexandria), and rooftop solar installation (Unsplash, Bill Mead, 2022)

    • City of Alexandria, Virginia Energy & Climate Change Action Plan
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    City of Baltimore Disaster Preparedness and Planning Project
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  • Ann Hilton Fisher

    • Climate Action Plan for the Chicago Region

  • Aerial view of Shaktoolik by Stefan Tangen. Used with permission

    • Defending in Place: Shaktoolik's Adaptation Plan Supports Local Decision Making
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    Denver, CO Climate Action Plan
    boats on a shore

  • Photo attributed to Glenn. Incorporated here under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. No endorsement by licensor implied.

    • Documenting Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Northwest Alaska

  • The Coleman Theater in downtown Miami, Oklahoma. By TheWhitePelican, own work. CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

    • Eighth Graders and Emergency Preparedness in Oklahoma
    river with mountains and trees

  • Photo attributed to Royalbroil. Incorporated here under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. No endorsement by licensor implied.

    • U.S. Global Change Research Program

  • Millie Hawley, President, Native Village of Kivalina. Used with permission

    • Relocating Kivalina
    island with ice formations

  • This photo has been released into the public domain because it contains materials that originally came from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. No endorsement by licensor implied.

    • Relocating the Village of Newtok, Alaska due to Coastal Erosion
    USFWS National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy

  • Cover credits: Children in woods, Steve Hillebrand. Horse-eye jacks, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Painted Hills, Jane Pellicciotto. Pelican, George Andrejko/ Arizona Game and Fish Department

    • USFWS National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy
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    Vermont Climate Action Plan

  • Ned Point Lighthouse, Mattapoisett. By Balon Greyjoy, own work. CC0 (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons

    • Weather Ready Mattapoisett: A Community Prepares for Extreme Weather
    grassland with snowy mountains

  • Angela Burgess, USFWS

    • Wind River Reservation Drought Preparedness