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Climate Adaptation Planning

for the Town of Truckee

GEOS INSTITUTE

U.S. Army NOAA

• K. Schafer

Whole Community Adaptation

Human Systems Built Systems Economic Systems Cultural Systems Natural Systems

Whole Community Adaptation

• 1. Cross-sector
• 2. Multi-stakeholder
• 3. Adaptive over time

U.S. Army

• K. Schafer

CCA-SA 3.0 Aaronbrick

Whole Community Adaptation

• 1. Science-based
• 2. Equitable
• 3. Protects people and nature

EPA

CCA-SA 3.0 Sooter

Task 1: Project Kickoff

• Importance of the Taskforce

Task 2: Community Engagement

• Workshops
• Share information on climate change and on local values,

stressors, and needs

• Ensures cross-sector, collaborative solutions
• Outreach
• Dynamic presentations
• Online surveys
• Events
• Need partner organization or contractor

Task 3: Vulnerability Assessment

• Exposure analysis
• Climate Trends Primer
• Historical trends, future

projections, and extreme events

• RCP 8.5 and 4.5
• Precip, temp., snowpack,

streamflow, drought and wildfire frequency, etc.

Task 3: Vulnerability Assessment

• Sensitivity, impact, and adaptive capacity
• Community Primer
• Workshop for local stakeholders and experts
• Risk Matrix

Task 3: Vulnerability Assessment

• Risk and Onset Analysis
• Trajectory, magnitude,

timeframe, and likelihood,

• f climate impacts

Task 4: Adaptation Strategies

• Prioritize vulnerabilities
• Identify Strategies
• Evaluate and Prioritize
• Phase and Implement
• Draft goals, policies, and actions

Missoula County, Montana

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Local Values for Missoula County, MT

• Clean, abundant

water

• Outdoor

recreation

• Fish and wildlife
• Compassionate

community

• Quality of life

Vulnerabilities

• Increased water conflict – ag, fish & wildlife,

industry, residential, outside markets

• Increasing risk and cost of fires & firefighting
• Respiratory illness and heart disease from

declining air quality

• Low income populations in high flood risk

areas

• Loss of quality of life related to natural areas

and outdoor recreation

BLM

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Adaptation Strategies

• Insurance rates higher in high

risk areas (flood, fire)

• Limit development in WUI
• Increase carbon storage in

trees, soils, vegetation

• Education and collaborate

with landowners (culture of self-reliance)

• Restore floodplains
• Reintroduce beavers
• Obtain public ownership of

water resources

• Education and outreach on

water conservation

• Showcase success stories
• n restoration, agricultural

innovations, etc.

• Improve air quality

CCA SA3.0 Marcin Klapczynisk

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Task 5: Safety Element, General Plan Incorporation

• Safety Element Update
• General Plan Incorporation
• Incorporate climate risks into safety element and
• ther elements, especially considering

transportation needs

• Need communication with GPU group

Coordination & Communication

• Taskforce for Adaptation Planning
• General Plan Update
• Project Website – www.climatewise.org

Timeline

March April May June July August September October November December Strategy Workshops Project Begins Vulnerability Assessment Adaptation Planning Vulnerability Workshops Kickoff Outreach and

• Engagement

January Safety Element, GPU

What Comes Afterwards?

• City ordinance
• Mainstreaming
• Monitoring and reassessment