The Project

The climate is changing. Extreme weather events, higher temperatures, rising sea levels, and extreme weather, with more precipitation and flooding, are happening now and are projected to get worse. In creating this plan, we’re taking a detailed look at risks that are likely to impact our community as a result of climate change and developing ways to address them now and in the years to come.

Assessing Vulnerability

The first step is to assess how vulnerable the assets in our community are. To what degree are the people, infrastructure, ecosystems, economy, and services in our community susceptible to climate hazards related to climate change, and how well can the these assets cope?

Considering Hazards

What do we mean by climate hazards? They are natural or human-induced physical events or trends that may cause loss of life, injury, or other health impacts, as well as damage and loss to property, infrastructure, livelihoods, service provision, ecosystems, and environmental resources. We will use local knowledge and reliable, current research about projections for local conditions to ground our understanding of hazards that may affect our community.

Planning for Adaptation

With a better understanding of our vulnerability, we will plan ways to adapt. Adaptation refers to the ways we modify or adjust our understanding of our situation in changing circumstances and develop responses accordingly.

Becoming Resilient

The Resilience Roadmap will lay out tools and strategies to help create a resilient community—one that can respond and recover quickly when faced with the climate change challenges as we understand them now, and can continue to assess, adapt, and retain that capacity in the future.

Sharing Information

Identifying opportunities for action and crafting a thoughtful, practical and effective plan will require getting good information from a wide variety of individuals groups, departments and agencies. To becoming a truly resilient community we will need to maintain an ongoing communication network we can rely on as we continue to adapt.