Adapting to climate change requires cities to leverage their efforts to meet multiple objectives and do so through an equity lens that counteracts existing patterns of vulnerability. This webinar episode by NOAA OAR’s Climate Program Office (USA).will feature three projects that consider co-benefits of NbS.
The first project, led by CAP’s Mid Atlantic team, addresses questions related to equitable multi-objective adaptation planning across scales. During the webinar you’ll learn about MARISA’s equity-oriented, multi-objective planning tool to support participatory adaptation scenario analysis through their case study in Baltimore.
The second project, led by CAP’s Southwest team, Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS), seeks to identify places to integrate health across the spectrum of climate resilience approaches. Their presentation will provide an overview of their plan to conduct a systematic review of interventions to support city planners, fire responders, and emergency managers, as well as the role NbS has in protecting human and animal health.
The final presentation will be a small grant-funded project by CAP’s Great Lakes team, Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments (GLISA). Chicago’s Southeast Side faces some of the City’s worst economic and health conditions. Massive storms have caused extreme flooding in the Southeast Side and combined sewer overflows in the nearby Calumet River. GLISA and the Alliance for the Great Lakes teamed up to support the work of the Calumet Connect partners on the Southeast Side of Chicago. Calumet Connect partners are working with the Chicago Department of Planning and Development (CDPD) and the Chicago Public Health Department (CPHD) on two policy initiatives: the Calumet River industrial corridor modernization plan and a city-wide stormwater management strategy and maintenance program.
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This webinar is part of Climate and Societal Interactions Division Nature-Based Solutions Webinar Series, organized by the NOAA OAR’s Climate Program Office (USA).
This five-part webinar series features projects funded by the Climate and Societal Interactions (CSI) Division’s Adaptation Sciences (AdSci) and Climate Adaptation Partnerships (CAP) programs focused on the research and application of nature-based solutions (NbS), which are actions to protect, sustainably manage, or restore natural or modified ecosystems to address societal challenges, simultaneously providing benefits for people and the environment.
CSI invests in research networks that connect and align cutting-edge science with the most urgent needs of stakeholders. As projects are rooted in community needs, NbS work funded through AdSci and CAP varies and includes topics ranging from identifying trade-offs and co-benefits of NbS, to informing decision support and community planning, as well as evaluation of projects once implemented.