CCAN, a NOAA CAP/RISA team, enables effective decision-making that supports building just and equitable resilience in the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, and their focus is to address climate hazards related to extreme rainfall, extreme heat, drought, landslides, and coastal and riverine flooding. CCAN utilizes a human-centered design, bringing together impacted community and government stakeholders, and multidisciplinary scientists to develop and co-produce community climate adaptation capacities, strategies, and actions that build on collectively produced insights and realistic locally grounded scenarios.
Area Served:
Puerto Rico, United States Virgin Islands
Location:
POINT (-66.1185 18.4671)
City:
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Resilience Category: