Connecting Wildlands and Communities: Integrated Land-Use Planning to Support Climate Resilient Ecosystems and Local Communities
Abstract
Protection and sound management of natural landscapes are critical for the viability of ecosystems and human communities under climate change. However, understanding and incorporating strategies that support climate resilience and adaptation through landscape-scale planning requires cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral partnerships (academia-practitioners- communities). To explore how landscapes can support adaptation and resilience to climate change for both ecosystems and local communities in southern California, we have established a partner consortium of planners, environmental engineers, ecologists, and geographers, and community partners brought together by a boundary-spanning organization. Through meaningful engagement and co-production of knowledge, science, and shovel-ready products, this diverse partner network is developing an integrated land-use planning approach to meet California State objectives of protecting rural communities, mitigating wildfire risk, supporting water sustainability, and protecting biodiversity. This partnership is supported by funding from the California Strategic Growth Council's Climate Change Research Program, which has emphasized such meaningful engagement as a key component of their program. Here we discuss the elements of the integrated decision-making framework to support multi-benefit planning and facilitate the adoption of science-informed climate resilience and adaptation strategies. Our transformative partnership demonstrates how to develop an actionable and transferable decision support framework for policy makers and planners that promotes climate resilience and adaptation strategies for ecosystem and human community benefits.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AGUFMPA54C..20L
- Keywords:
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- 1630 Impacts of global change;
- GLOBAL CHANGE;
- 1999 General or miscellaneous;
- INFORMATICS;
- 6319 Institutions;
- POLICY SCIENCES;
- 6620 Science policy;
- POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES