GLIN==> Great Lakes Supplement to "Adapting to Climate Change: A Planning Guide for State Coastal Managers” now available

NOAA's Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management is pleased to announce the release 
of a Great Lakes Supplement to “Adapting to Climate Change: A Planning Guide for State 
Coastal Managers.”  The Great Lakes Supplement was developed with funding from the Great 
Lakes Restoration Initiative and is intended to be used as a companion to the Planning 
Guide. It provides more specificity on climate trends and potential climate change impacts 
and consequences affecting the Great Lakes region and includes numerous case examples of 
adaptation actions already being taken at the regional, state, and local levels.

The Great Lakes Supplement is already in use, as a series of "Planning for Climate Change" 
workshops being held this Summer and Fall in several Great Lakes communities are 
highlighting case examples and adaptation strategies identified in the Supplement.

The Planning Guide and Great Lakes Supplement help coastal managers reduce the risks of 
climate change impacts that may affect their coasts.  The Guide includes science-based 
information on climate change to set the context for adaptation planning and includes 
steps for setting up a planning process, assessing vulnerability, devising a strategy, and 
implementing the plan. The Planning Guide compiles information from a number of sources 
and includes techniques currently being used successfully by coastal managers to address 
other coastal management issues such as coastal hazards, habitat loss, and secondary and 
cumulative impacts.

The Planning Guide and Great Lakes Supplement are web-only publications and can be found 
here: http://coastalmanagement.noaa.gov/climate/adaptation.html




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Joshua Lott		josh.lott at noaa.gov
Great Lakes and Gulf of Mexico Coastal Management Programs
NOAA's National Ocean Service
Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management
(301) 563-1178
fax (301) 713-4004
http://www.coastalmanagement.noaa.gov/