Tools, Techniques, and Tactics for Advancing Successful Climate Adaptation - NERRS/NSC(NERRS Science Collaborative)

This project created a web-based toolkit, called Resilience Metrics, designed to complement other climate adaptation planning tools. The toolkit provides a rationale for how monitoring and evaluation support climate adaptation as well as guidance for how to envision adaptation success and then identify, prioritize, and track appropriate indicators and metrics. The Resilience Metrics toolkit represents the culmination of 10 years of work on adaptation process and success, six years of which involved the National Estuarine Research Reserve System. The project increased the capacity and tools for the Reserve system and national, state, and local decision-makers to lead and engage in conversations around climate adaptation. This catalyst project was funded by NOAA through the National Estuarine Research Reserve System Science Collaborative to advance collaborative science. It did not produce any new data.

As coastal communities work to move toward a climate-resilient future, the lessons learned from existing adaptation efforts are a valuable resource to assess what is working, and why. In recognition of the widespread need for tools to track and evaluate adaptation progress and success, five National Estuarine Research Reserves – Tijuana River, Kachemak Bay, Jacques Cousteau, Hudson, and Wells – came together in 2015 through the Successful Adaptation Indicators and Metrics project to explore and collaboratively develop tools to assess adaptation progress. To share lessons learned with other reserves and coastal decision makers in their own conversations about successful adaptation, this follow-on project refined, compiled, and leveraged the wealth of knowledge and tools generated by those initial reserve participants.

Project Lead and Contact:

Danielle Boudreau, Tijuana River NERR, dboudreau@trnerr.org

Project Type: Catalyst

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