Coordinated planning effort as multilevel climate governance: Insights from coastal resilience and climate adaptation

Geoforum ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 77-88
Author(s):  
Hyun Kim ◽  
David W. Marcouiller ◽  
Kyle Maurice Woosnam
Keyword(s):  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Climate Governance ◽  
Planning Effort ◽  
Coastal Resilience

Climate Change and Coastal Vulnerability

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyu Li ◽  
Sathya Gopalakrishnan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Grand Challenge ◽  
Management Problem ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Coastal Resilience ◽  
Normative Models

The convergence of geophysical and economic forces that continuously influence environmental quality in the coastal zone presents a grand challenge for resource and environmental economists. To inform climate adaptation policy and identify pathways to sustainability, economists must draw from different lines of inquiry, including nonmarket valuation, quasi-experimental analyses, common-pool resource theory, and spatial-dynamic modeling of coupled coastal-economic systems. Theoretical and empirical contributions in valuing coastal amenities and risks help examine the economic impact of climate change on coastal communities and provide a key input to inform policy analysis. Co-evolution of community demographics, adaptation decisions, and the physical coastline can result in unintended consequences, like climate-induced migration, that impacts community composition after natural disasters. Positive and normative models of coupled coastline systems conceptualize the feedbacks between physical coastline dynamics and local community decisions as a dynamic geoeconomic resource management problem. There is a pressing need for interdisciplinary research across natural and social sciences to better understand climate adaptation and coastal resilience.

United States: Blending Finance Mechanisms for Coastal Resilience and Climate Adaptation

2019 ◽  
pp. 213-236
Author(s):  
Katie Arkema ◽  
Rick Bennett ◽  
Alyssa Dausman ◽  
Len Materman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Coastal Resilience

scholarly journals The Invisible Flood: The Chemistry, Ecology, and Social Implications of Coastal Saltwater Intrusion

BioScience ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (5) ◽  
pp. 368-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Tully ◽  
Keryn Gedan ◽  
Rebecca Epanchin-Niell ◽  
Aaron Strong ◽  
Emily S Bernhardt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Saltwater Intrusion ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Leading Edge ◽  
Freshwater Wetlands ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Tidal Inundation ◽  
Nutrient Mobilization ◽  
Upland Forest ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Coastal Resilience

Abstract Saltwater intrusion is the leading edge of sea-level rise, preceding tidal inundation, but leaving its salty signature far inland. With climate change, saltwater is shifting landward into regions that previously have not experienced or adapted to salinity, leading to novel transitions in biogeochemistry, ecology, and human land uses. We explore these changes and their implications for climate adaptation in coastal ecosystems. Biogeochemical changes, including increases in ionic strength, sulfidation, and alkalinization, have cascading ecological consequences such as upland forest retreat, conversion of freshwater wetlands, nutrient mobilization, and declines in agricultural productivity. We explore the trade-offs among land management decisions in response to these changes and how public policy should shape socioecological transitions in the coastal zone. Understanding transitions resulting from saltwater intrusion—and how to manage them—is vital for promoting coastal resilience.

The Methow Beaver Project: the Challenges of an Ecosystem Services Experiment

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Philip Brick ◽  
Kent Woodruff
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Castor Canadensis ◽  
Water Storage ◽  
Climate Projections ◽  
High Mountain ◽  
Natural Resource Policy ◽  
Watershed Scale ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Climate Conditions

This case explores the Methow Beaver Project (MBP), an ambitious experiment to restore beaver (Castor canadensis) to a high mountain watershed in Washington State, USA. The Pacific Northwest is already experiencing weather regimes consistent with longer term climate projections, which predict longer and drier summers and stronger and wetter winter storms. Ironically, this combination makes imperative more water storage in one of the most heavily dammed regions in the nation. Although the positive role that beaver can play in watershed enhancement has been well known for decades, no project has previously attempted to re-introduce beaver on a watershed scale with a rigorous monitoring protocol designed to document improved water storage and temperature conditions needed for human uses and aquatic species. While the MBP has demonstrated that beaver can be re-introduced on a watershed scale, it has been much more difficult to scientifically demonstrate positive changes in water retention and stream temperature, given hydrologic complexity, unprecedented fire and floods, and the fact that beaver are highly mobile. This case study can help environmental studies students and natural resource policy professionals think about the broader challenges of diffuse, ecosystem services approaches to climate adaptation. Beaver-produced watershed improvements will remain difficult to quantify and verify, and thus will likely remain less attractive to water planners than conventional storage dams. But as climate conditions put additional pressure on such infrastructure, it is worth considering how beaver might be employed to augment watershed storage capacity, even if this capacity is likely to remain at least in part inscrutable.

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