Climate change adaptation action plans – Alberta process review
Interim Reports
Sanderson, K. | November 01, 2013
How decision support tools that reflect climate change impacts and adaptation strategies for biodiversity and ecosystem services can fit into climate change adaptation planning.
Making Resilience Matter: Communications Strategy for the Local Adaptations Sub-project
Interim Reports
Greenaway, G. | September 01, 2013
A communication strategy intended to guide creation of materials that support local decision-makers to embrace a resilience-based approach to climate change adaptation.
Downscaling Climate Data for Climate Change Adaptation Action Planning in Alberta
Interim Reports
Chernoff, G. | September 01, 2013
A review of techniques for downscaling climate data for climate change adaptation action planning, including examples of spatial (traditional) and narrative downscaling.
Alberta’s Natural Subregions Under a Changing Climate: Past, Present and Future
Final Reports
Schneider, R.R. | August 27, 2013
Projections of ecosystem transitions in response to anticipated climate change in Alberta, including detailed maps of projected climate change and ecosystem shifts, and discussion of potential successional trajectories.
Where resilience meets policy: a review of southern Alberta municipal policies for climate change adaptation strategy insertion points
Interim Reports
Greenaway, G. | June 01, 2013
A review of southern Alberta municipal policies to identify the range of opportunities available to local governments to address climate change adaptation using existing municipal plans and policies.
Modeling avifaunal responses to climate change across Alberta’s Natural Regions
Interim Reports
Stralberg, D., and E.M. Bayne | May 31, 2013
Projected changes in the distribution and abundance of 84 Alberta-breeding songbirds in response to projected changes in climate, revealing the potential for dramatic northward shifts in suitable climates many of these species over the next century.
Technologies for conserving climate-sensitive species at risk: rare plants
Interim Reports
Nielsen, S. | March 01, 2013
Summary of 2012 field research assessing the use of assisted migration as a potential tool for conserving dispersal-limited plant species, using two model species: northern blazing star and long-leaved bluets.
Proposed Action Plan Approach for Local Adaptation to Climate Change in Alberta
Interim Reports
Greenaway G., et al. | March 01, 2013
An overview of the climate change action planning approach to climate change adaptation and identification of possible roles for ecosystem services and biodiversity in action planning for communities.