| #e.22471 | Thursday 9:00AM to 4:30PM
March 7,
2013 | CM | 6.00 |
Climate Change Adaptation PlanningUC Davis ExtensionSacramento, CA The link between global levels of greenhouse gases and climate is well established, even as our understanding of the impact on climate continues to grow and evolve. While the initial response to climate change has been to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, planners, scientists, and policy makers are increasingly focused on community resilience and adaptive capacity in response to climate change. There is a growing recognition that a changing climate will result in an increasing frequency of extreme weather and weather-related events. Planners are placing more emphasis on how communities can better plan for, withstand, recover more quickly from, and prosper in the face of climate change and an increasing number of extreme events.
This course will present the most recent science, policy responses, and case studies of planning for long-term community resilience, collaborative regional approaches to climate change response, climate change and natural disasters, and public-private partnerships to address community resilience. Topics will include:
- Current information about climate change predictions and uncertainties in California, including sea-level rise, flooding, increasing variability in precipitation patterns, wildfire risks, extreme heat, prolonged drought, health risks, ecological changes, and other effects;
- State and federal efforts to respond to climate-related risks and regional collaborations that result from these efforts;
- How to determine climate vulnerability, risks, and response for communities, including assessments related to buildings and infrastructure, community health, ecosystem function, economic stability, food security, social systems, and disproportionate impacts on disadvantaged communities;
- Decision support tools for policy makers and the business community to respond to climate change;
- Planning and implementation tools (general plans, climate adaptation plans, multi-hazard mitigation plans, regional sustainability strategies and frameworks, etc.);
- CEQA approaches to addressing climate change and its impacts as part of environmental review.
- Lessons from climate adaptation efforts around the globe and their relevance to California communities.
More Instructors: Jeff Goldman Jeff Goldman has more than 30 years of experience in community planning, development codes, community outreach and CEQA compliance with an emphasis on sustainability, climate change and adaptation, energy efficiency and water conservation. He has directed work on climate action planning and adaptation documents as well as general plan elements that address climate change and adaptation for cities and counties throughout California. He is working on regional sustainability efforts that incorporate climate action planning, adaptation and decision support tools for the Lake Tahoe Basin, Solano County, and Silicon Valley. Alex Hinds Alex Hinds, M.A., co-founder of Sonoma State University's Center for Sustainable Communities, works with other "recycled" professionals and environmental studies and planning students assisting local governments with climate action plans and other sustainable community strategies. He also oversees and co-instructs green building and sustainable development certificate classes through SSU's School of Extended Education. Hinds has directed planning and community development agencies in Marin, San Luis Obispo and Lake counties and was one of the founding members of Green Cities of California. He is a board member of the California Planning Roundtable, California Planning Foundation, U.S. Green Building Council-Redwood Empire Chapter and the Pena Pachamama Cultural Center. (0 Ratings)
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