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|a Adaptation to the Impacts of Climate Change |h [electronic resource]. |
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|a Please contact the owning institution for licensing and permissions. It is the user's responsibility to ensure use does not violate any third party rights. |
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|a Much of the nation’s experience to date in managing and protecting its
people, resources, and infrastructure is based on the historic record of
climate variability during a period of relatively stable climate. Adaptation
to climate change calls for a new paradigm—one that considers a range of
possible future climate conditions and associated
impacts, some well outside the realm of past
experience. Adaptation is a process that requires actions from many decision-makers in federal,
state, tribal, and local governments, the private sector, non-governmental organizations, and
community groups. However, current efforts are hampered by a lack of solid information about the
benefits, costs, and effectiveness of various adaptation options, by uncertainty about future climate
impacts at a scale necessary for decision-making, and by a lack of coordination. Therefore, a
national adaptation strategy is needed to support and coordinate decentralized efforts. As part of
this strategy, the federal government should provide technical and scientific resources that are
currently lacking at the local or regional scale, incentives for local and state authorities to begin
adaptation planning, guidance across jurisdictions, shared lessons learned, and support of scientific
research to expand knowledge of impacts and adaptation. |
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|a Electronic reproduction. |c Florida International University, |d 2015. |f (dpSobek) |n Mode of access: World Wide Web. |n System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software. |
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|a National Academy of Sciences. |
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