Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment

This course is designed to guide conservation and resource management practitioners in essential elements in the design of climate adaptation plans and elaborates on the Scanning the Conservation Horizon Guide

What's Inside?

Climate Change
New! Vulnerability Assessment Guide to Help Natural Resource Managers Make Climate-Smart Conservation Decisions
January 19, 2011
Cover of the Scanning the Conservation Horizon: A Guide to Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment. Courtesy of National Wildlife FederationA new guide released today offers conservationists and resource managers a way to understand the impact of climate change on species and ecosystems and will support efforts to safeguard these valuable natural resources.
(click on cover for pdf of full guide)

News Release (NWF)

Executive Summary (pdf)

Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Courses
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September 22, 2011
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in collaboration with the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) and several other conservation partners, have been honored for their collective efforts to build a common understanding of climate change impacts to species and ecosystems. Learn More

Additional Resources
Executive Summary
"New Case Studies"
Preface
Training
Introduction
Archived Webinars
Vulnerability Assessment Basics
Links to Literature Cited
Assessing the Components of Vulnerability
Links to Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments Resources
Peering into the Future: Climate and Ecological Models
Addressing Uncertainty in Vulnerability Assessments

What's New?
Using Vulnerability Assessments Results Rocky Mountain Research Station Develops System for Assessing Vulnerability of Species
Case Studies

Press release June 15, 2011 - NWF and EcoAdapt: Restoring the Great Lakes’ Coastal Future Technical Guidance for the Design and Implementation of Climate-Smart Restoration Projects
Glossary
Acronyms
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Resources
Literature Cited
 

Hall Island, Bering Sea, Alaska (photo USFWS)

Atlantic Puffins (photo USFWS)

Oil Spill into Wetlands (photo USFWS)
Monarch Butterfly on New England Aster (photo USFWS)
Marsch (photo USFWS)
What is Vulnerability?
Why Access Vulnerability?
Key Steps
Addressing Uncertainty
Key Components
“Vulnerability assessments are critical to nationwide conservation planning efforts such as those being undertaken by Landscape Conservation Cooperatives—a network of partnerships utilizing shared science to address climate change and other landscape-scale environmental stressors,” said Rowan Gould, Acting Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. “This new guide is a powerful tool to help the conservation community support climate adaptation efforts aimed at ensuring the sustainability of our natural resources in the face of uncertainty.” Rowan Gould, photo credit: L. Walton, USFWS

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Last updated: February 3, 2012