Water Utilities and Climate Change Workshop

List of References and Resources

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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
  http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/global/recordisplay.cfm?deid=233808#Download
• 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.
  http://www.nyas.org/Publications/Annals/Detail.aspx?cid=ab9d0f9f-1cb1-4f21-b0c8-7607daa5dfcc
• 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.
  http://www.georgetownclimate.org/adaptation/index.php
• A Survey of Climate Change Adaptation Planning
  
  The H. John Heinz lll Center for Science, Economics and the Environment
  http://www.heinzctr.org/
• 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
  http://ec.europa.eu/development/icenter/repository/ECA_Shaping_Climate_Resilent_Development.pdf
• Comprehensive Strategy for Reducing Maryland’s Vulnerability to Climate Change
  
  http://www.dnr.state.md.us/climatechange/climatechange_phase2_adaptation_strategy.pdf
• Climate Ready Water Utilities Toolbox
  
  http://www.epa.gov/safewater/watersecurity/climate/toolbox.html
• Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change
  
  National Academy of Sciences
  http://dels.nas.edu/Report/Adapting-Impacts-Climate/12783

FLORIDA-SPECIFIC CLIMATE ADAPTATION RESOURCES

• Lee County Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment
  
  Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council
  http://www.lee-county.com/gov/dept/sustainability/Documents/Lee%20County%20Climate%20Change%20Vulnerability%20Assessment%20Final%20201.pdf
• Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact
  
  Four-county agreement
  http://www.broward.org/NaturalResources/ClimateChange/Documents/CompactFinal.pdf
• List of Resources for Planning for Adaptation
  
  http://www.broward.org/NaturalResources/ClimateChange/Pages/Adaptation.aspx
• Local Strategies for Addressing Climate Change
  
  NOAA Coastal Services Center
  http://www.broward.org/NaturalResources/ClimateChange/Documents/climatechangestrategies.pdf
• First Annual Report, February 2011 - Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact
  
  Look under “Highlights” on
  http://www.ces.fau.edu/climate_change
• A Unified Sea Level Rise Projection for Southeast Florida
  
  Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact
  Look under “Highlights” on
  http://www.ces.fau.edu/climate_change
• Analysis of the Vulnerability of Southeast Florida to Sea Level Rise
  
  Southeast Florida Regional Climate change Compact
  Look under “Highlights” on
  http://www.ces.fau.edu/climate_change
• Southeast Florida’s Resilient Water Resources: Adaptation to Sea Level Rise and Other Impacts of Climate Change
  
  Look under “Publications” on
  http://www.ces.fau.edu/climate_change
• Virtual Climate Adaptation Library
  
  Florida Institute of Technology
  http://research.fit.edu/sealevelriselibrary/
• Public Water Supply Utilities Climate Impacts Working Group
  
  University of Florida Water Institute
  http://waterinstitute.ufl.edu/workshops_panels/PWSU-CIWG.html