Transcript Water, Land and Communities: Adapting to Climate Change along

Charlotte County Climate
Change Vulnerability Assessment
The Importance of Collaboration
Overview
Climate change adaptation in Charlotte County
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Overview
Climate change adaptation
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Overview
Timeline
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Fall 2012 – Teamed with St. Croix Estuary Project
Fall 2013 – Began vulnerability assessment
Spring 2014 – Released results
Spring 2015 – Completed risk assessment
Fall 2015 – Release adaptation plan
Spring 2016 – Implement plan
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Overview
Community Vulnerability Assessment
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• Define the issue
• Understand the physical impacts
• Identify the social and economic consequences
• Identify the governance and policy issues
• Integrate and define options for remedy
• Analyze the options, identify pros and cons
• Prioritize the options
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Vulnerability Assessment Results
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Collaborators
Government
Municipal Provincial Federal
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Researchers
Environmental Social Industry
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Residents
Citizens Industry Special interests
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Government
Municipalities
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Most common scale – “the subject”
Requires motion of support from council
Can provide networking and facilities
Need strong communication and reflexive
methodology – fit inside existing boxes
• Interest will correlate to impacts
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Government
Municipalities
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Government
Municipalities
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Government
Province
• Your Environmental Trust Fund at work
• Climate Change Secretariat will provide
guidance and leadership – no silos
• Presence will legitimize proceedings
• Create links to EMO, DTI, DNR, DELG
• Need them in your corner
• Other: economic data (fisheries, forestry)
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Government
Federales
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Lots of isolated instances of assistance
Identify need, track down answer
Common needs: climate data, census data
Recommendations will encompass federal
policy (groan)
• Times are changing
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Government
The RSC? The RSC!
• RSC still a thing
• Success may vary
• Great scale
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Residents
Citizens
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The key component
Volunteers
Use the press
They have all the data
Brainstorming recommendations
Diversity is key
Keep them coming back
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Residents
Citizens
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Residents
Industry
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Lots of overlap in small communities
After work-hours challenge
Open communication
Will need to ground truth recommendations
Socioeconomic drivers to adaptation
Small business v. Big business:
different needs, concerns, & questions
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Residents
Special Interests
• Real estate agents
• Insurance brokers
• Teachers
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Researchers
• Consider budget
• Consider climate impacts
• Control flow of information between
researchers and citizens
• Will provide data and context
• Reconsider budget
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Researchers
Environmental
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Researchers
Environmental
• Key to infrastructure impacts
• Dr. Paul Arp - Professor, Faculty of Forestry
and Environmental Management at the
University of New Brunswick
http://watershed.for.unb.ca/
• Réal Daigle - Meteorologist and Climate
Change Consultant and Director at R. J.
Daigle Enviro
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Researchers
Social
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Researchers
Social
• Key to socioeconomic impacts
• Dr. James I. MacLellan - Director for the
Centre for Research and Innovation in
Sustainability at the University of New
Brunswick
• Dr. Nicole Klenk - Assistant Professor at the
University of Toronto and Adjunct Professor
at the University of New Brunswick
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Researchers
Industry
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Fisheries biologists
Foresters
Ecologists
Find them at DAAF, DNR, DFO, ECCC
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Conclusion
Collaborators
• Keep an eye on the future
• Don’t forget your next steps
• Climate change adaptation depends on
consultation and collaboration throughout
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Questions?
• Report available at ecwinc.org
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