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Title
Rapid assessment to facilitate climate-informed conservation and nature-based solutions
Author(s)
Oakes, Lauren E.;Cross, Molly S.;Zavaleta, Erika S.
Published
2021
Publisher
Conservation Science and Practice
Published Version DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.472
Abstract
The need to ensure that rising investment in nature-based climate solutions delivers expected outcomes hinges on incorporating current and future climate into design and implementation. Technical guidelines and formal planning processes serve a purpose in ensuring the quality of climate-informed strategies for local projects. The inherent complexity, cost, and time required to use these tools, however, can make them inaccessible or daunting. Taking lessons learned from a decade of funding over 100 adaptation initiatives in conservation—some of which also provide mitigation benefits—we describe a simple rapid assessment framework for use by practitioners and funders. This framework, which we refer to as the 5Ws (what, when, where, why, and who) of climate-informed action, serves as a guide to make projects more robust to future climate.
Keywords
adaptation;assessment;climate change;conservation;nature based solutions;planning;resilience
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