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Water Utilities and Climate Change Workshop

Friday, June 10, 2011
West Palm Beach, Florida

Building on existing work in developing climate scenarios and adaptations, this workshop covered the decisions necessary for water utility expansion, rehabilitation and adaptation planning in the context of climate change.

WRF
 PBCWU
 PBC-FL
  Agenda     
  Welcome
Bevin Beaudet, PE, Director of Palm Beach County Water Utilities
Kenan Ozekin, PhD, Water Research Foundation 
 
  Workshop Overview and Status of Climate Change Adaptation in Florida
(Information on Four County Compact, South Florida Regional Planning Council, etc.)
Dr. Leonard Berry, Florida Atlantic University
 
  Current Climate Science and Climate Scenarios for Florida
Dr. Vivien Gornitz and Dan Bader, Columbia University [ download presentation ]
 
 

Utility presentations - Problems and Opportunities
Maurice Tobon, PE, Director Engineering Palm Beach County Water Utilities [ download presentation ]
Jennifer Jurado, PhD, Director Broward County Environmental Services [ download presentation ]
Douglas Yoder, Deputy Director Miami-Dade Water and Sewer  [ download presentation ]

Alison Adams, PE, PhD, Tampa Bay Water [ download presentation ]

 
  Adaptation Assessment and Planning
Dr. David Major, Columbia University

 
  Adaptations for Operations, Infrastructure and Policy
Dr. David Major, Columbia University [ download presentation ]
 
  Evaluation of Adaptations
Dr. Frederick Bloetscher, Florida Atlantic University
 
  Identifying Barriers and Opportunities
Panel Reflections and Discussion (Palm Beach County, Broward County, Miami-Dade, Tampa Bay)
Moderated by Dr. Leonard Berry, Florida Atlantic University
 
  Next Steps, WRF Report Outline and Adjourn
Dr. David Major, Columbia University
 

 


 

    GENERAL CLIMATE ADAPTATION RESOURCES  
 

Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments: Four Case Studies of Water Utility Practices

EPA - prepared by the National Center for Environmental Assessment's Global Climate Research Staff in the Office of Research and Development

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Climate Change Adaptation in New York City: Building a Risk Management Response

New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC). (2010). Climate change adaptation in New York City: building a risk management response, C. Rosenzweig and W. Solecki (eds.), New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY.
Appendix A has the methodology for the climate scenarios, and Appendix B is the Adaptation Assessment Guidebook.

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List of State and Local Adaptation Plans

The Georgetown Climate Center provides states and local governments with best-practice models, legal analysis, policy work and legislative tracking, and seeks to maximize the federal, state, regional, and local collaborations that are needed to implement new approaches to adaptation.

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A Survey of Climate Change Adaptation Planning

The H. John Heinz lll Center for Science, Economics and the Environment

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Shaping Climate-Resilient Development: A Framework for Decision-making

Climate Works Foundation, Global Environmental Facility, European Commission, McKinsey & Company, The Rockefeller Foundation, Standard Chartered Bank and Swiss Re

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Comprehensive Strategy for Reducing Maryland's Vulnerability to Climate Change

Click Here

 
 

Creating Resilient Water Utilities (CRWU)

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Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change

National Academy of Sciences

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FLORIDA-SPECIFIC CLIMATE ADAPTATION RESOURCES

 

 

Lee County Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment

Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council

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Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact

Four-county agreement

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Local Strategies for Addressing Climate Change

NOAA Coastal Services Center

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First Annual Report, February 2011 - Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact

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A Unified Sea Level Rise Projection for Southeast Florida

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Analysis of the Vulnerability of Southeast Florida to Sea Level Rise

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Southeast Florida's Resilient Water Resources: Adaptation to Sea Level Rise and Other Impacts of Climate Change

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Coastal Climate Adaptation Library

Florida Institute of Technology

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Collaborative Development of Public Water Supply Utility Relevant Climate Information for Improved Operations and Planning

 

Click Here

 

 

 

 

 

 



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