Preparing for Climate Change: A Guidebook for Local, Regional and State Governments

Preparing for Climate Change: A Guidebook for Local, Regional, and State Governments is designed to help local, regional, and state governments prepare for climate change by recommending a detailed, easy-to-understand process for climate change preparedness based on familiar resources and tools. Questions addressed in the guidebook include the following:

How do you scope out the problems of climate change across sectors of your community?
How do you raise and maintain support to prepare for climate change?
Whom should you include on a climate change preparedness team?
What are climate change planning areas, and how do you identify them for your community?
How do you identify your sensitivity, adaptive capacity, and risk to climate change impacts – i.e., conduct a vulnerability assessment and a risk assessment ?
How do identify your climate change priority planning areas?
How do you establish a vision and guiding principles for a climate resilient community in these priority planning areas?
How do you begin to develop climate change preparedness goals and actions in these priority planning areas?
How do you develop a climate change preparedness plan?
How do you ensure that you have the right implementation tools to take your preparedness actions?
How do you develop measures of resilience to track your progress and update your plans over time, to ensure that your efforts are really making your community more resilient to climate change?