Visit this page to see the UNC Coastal Resilience Center’s December newsletter.
Year: 2016
Article: Historic Princeville, NC faces harrowing choice
What’s thought to be the first town incorporated by freed enslaved people is facing a difficult decision: accept a buyout from FEMA to move from the land that generations of black ancestors have proudly called home since the 1880s, or rebuild with the possibility of another 100-year flood happening in the years to come. Read more here.
Article: CNN opinion piece on why we don’t need a governor as FEMA administrator
The country needs an experienced emergency manager, not a governor who has been loyal to the President-elect, to lead our nation’s disaster response and recovery efforts. Read more here.
Jobs: Opportunities from CAKE’s December newsletter
Courtesy of the CAKE newsletter
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship – Climate Adaptation Knowledge Systems and Comparative Analysis of Scenario Processes. Cape Town, South Africa
Quantitative Environmental Scientist: Landscape Ecology or Climate Adaptation – University of California, Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz, CA
Postdoc – Decision Support for Sustainable Climate Risk Management. Pennsylvania State University
Water Resources Manager – Broward County, Environmental Planning & Community Resilience Division. Broward County, Florida
Senior Policy Analyst – Metropolitan Area Planning Council. Boston, Massachusetts
Climate Scientist – ICF. Washington, D.C.
Senior Climate Adaptation Leader / Project Manager. Oakland, CA
Director/Partner, Air Quality & Climate Change (California), Environmental Resources Management (ERM). San Francisco, CA
Project Manager, Acclimatise. Cardiff, UK
Director, Climate Resilience Practice, WRI. Washington, DC
Resources: Climate Change Action at the Local Level
A new report, Climate Adaptation: the State of U.S. Communities by Abt Associates and the Kresge Foundation, can be found here.
A new report, Cities Alive: Green Building Envelope by Arup includes research that examines how to retrofit buildings with green infrastructure, such as vegetated walls. Read more here.
Another report by Arup, Deadline 2020: How Cities Will Get the Job Done, breaks down the actions needed to be taken across the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. Read more here.
Resource: Extreme Heat Guidebook
Access the EPA resource here.
Webinar: Will Changes in DC Affect the Adaptation Movement? (12/13)
All Adaptation is Local: Will Changes in DC Affect the Adaptation Movement?
Tuesday, December 13, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Over the past decade adaptation has been burgeoning in the United States. While the federal agencies have been part of this for the past several years, they have not always been the primary leaders. What are non-federal entities aiming to do in light of the changes expected in DC? Will their course change or be unaltered?
Hear from experts in the adaptation community:
- Shamar Bibbins, Program Officer for Environment at The Kresge Foundation
- Denise Fairchild, President of Emerald Cities Collaborative
- Bob Gough, Cultural Ecologist and Attorney
- Lara Hansen, Chief Scientist and Executive Director of EcoAdapt
- Michael McCormick, Senior Planner in the California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research
Opportunity: Present at the National Adaptation Forum (May 9-11)
Poster, Tools Café and Oral Presentation submissions are closing soon (December 16)!
After this election, adaptation is more important than ever! Join friends at the National Adaptation Forum to create a better tomorrow, starting today. If you did not have enough time to write a full session symposia, you can still submit an abstract for Oral Presentations or Poster Presentations for review. You can also submit an online decision making tool for our Tools Café. Deadline for submissions is December 16. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee and decisions on acceptance will take place late January 2017.
We expect that sessions will reflect the best thinking in the adaptation field, informed by theory, research, and practice on key subjects related to identified focal topics and cross-cutting themes.
You can read the full instructions here and learn more about how to submit new proposals. You can learn about the proposal criteria here.
Event: National Adaptation Forum (May 9-11) registration open
The National Adaptation Forum will be gathering in Saint Paul, MN from May 9-11, 2017. While there, you will learn how to make your work climate-informed, share what you have learned with others, and develop a stronger network of like-minded peers. You can make a My Forum profile here, where you will be able to register. (If you have submitted a proposal, you will use the same profile for registration.)
Those who attend the Forum will benefit from exposure to all aspects of the field, professional development, and information sharing through an innovative and comprehensive program featuring plenary sessions, symposia, working groups, training sessions, exhibit booths, poster sessions, and networking events.
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