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Research on coastal change in Western Alaska has increased rapidly in recent years, making it challenging to track existing projects, understand their cumulative insights, gauge remaining research gaps, and prioritize future research. This project identified existing coastal change projects in Western Alaska that were happening in 2014, scheduled for 2015 or occured in 2012-2014. The report (below) provides a synthesis of information about each project category, and an associated online database (see ACCAP project page link below) describes individual projects and information on how to contact the project leader. These products document the project landscape for communities facing change, decision-makers navigating...
Categories: Data;
Tags: COASTAL AREAS,
COASTAL AREAS,
COASTAL HABITAT,
COASTAL HABITAT,
COASTAL LANDFORMS, All tags...
COASTAL LANDFORMS,
COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES,
COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES,
COASTAL PROCESSES,
COASTAL PROCESSES,
Data,
Interested public,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
Regional & county planners,
Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov,
biota,
biota,
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere,
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere,
completed,
elevation,
elevation,
environment,
environment,
geoscientificInformation,
geoscientificInformation,
imageryBaseMapsEarthCover,
imageryBaseMapsEarthCover,
oceans,
oceans,
society,
society,
transportation,
transportation, Fewer tags
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Earth is experiencing widespread ecological transformation in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems that is attributable to directional environmental changes, especially intensifying climate change. To better steward ecosystems facing unprecedented and lasting change, a new management paradigm is forming, supported by a decision-oriented framework that presents three distinct management choices: resist, accept, or direct the ecological trajectory. To make these choices strategically, managers seek to understand the nature of the transformation that could occur if change is accepted while identifying opportunities to intervene to resist or direct change. In this article, we seek to inspire a research agenda...
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This document is the final report for the project. It describes how contacts were identified, provides general descriptions of different categories (such as coastal erosion or coastal adaptation projects), and links them back to findings and recommendations from the Coastal Hazards workshop co-sponsored by the Western Alaska LCC, the Alaska Climate Science Center, and the Alaska Ocean Observing System in 2012.Research on coastal change in Western Alaska has increased rapidly in recent years, making it challenging to track existing projects, understand their cumulative insights, gauge remaining research gaps, and prioritize future research. This project identified existing coastal change projects in Western Alaska...
Categories: Data;
Tags: COASTAL AREAS,
COASTAL AREAS,
COASTAL HABITAT,
COASTAL HABITAT,
COASTAL LANDFORMS, All tags...
COASTAL LANDFORMS,
COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES,
COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES,
COASTAL PROCESSES,
COASTAL PROCESSES,
Interested public,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
Regional & county planners,
Report,
Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov,
biota,
biota,
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere,
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere,
completed,
elevation,
elevation,
environment,
environment,
geoscientificInformation,
geoscientificInformation,
imageryBaseMapsEarthCover,
imageryBaseMapsEarthCover,
oceans,
oceans,
society,
society,
transportation,
transportation, Fewer tags
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Research on coastal change in Cook Inlet and South East Alaska has increased rapidly in recent years, making it challenging to track existing projects, understand their cumulative insights, gauge remaining research gaps, and prioritize future work. The project proposed here will identify existing coastal change research in Cook Inlet and Southeast Alaska, and synthesize each projects focus, approach, and findings. The resulting report will document the research landscape for communities facing change, decision-makers navigating change, researchers pursuing projects, as well as funding agencies trying to prioritize where to allocate resources. This project will help the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative...
Categories: Data,
Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: 2015,
AK-0,
AK-00,
Academics & scientific researchers,
Academics & scientific researchers, All tags...
Alaska,
Alaska,
Changes in sea level and coastal storms,
Climate Change,
Conservation Planning,
Conservation Planning,
Cook Inlet,
Cook Inlet,
Cook Inlet,
Cook Inlet,
Decision Support,
Decision Support,
Federal resource managers,
Federal resource managers,
LCC,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
LCC Network Science Catalog - LCCScienceCatalog,
North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative,
Priority C. Effects of changes in sea levels,
Project,
Report,
Report,
SE Alaska,
SE Alaska,
SE Alaska,
Southeast Alaska,
State agencies,
State agencies,
Training/Outreach/Workshop,
Training/Outreach/Workshop,
Website,
Website,
climate change,
climate change,
climate change,
climate change,
coastal change,
coastal change,
coastal change,
coastal change,
completed,
onGoing,
sea level rise,
sea level rise, Fewer tags
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Ecological transformation creates many challenges for public natural resource management and requires managers to grapple with new relationships to change and new ways to manage it. In the context of unfamiliar trajectories of ecological change, a manager can resist, accept, or direct change, choices that make up the resist-accept-direct (RAD) framework. In this article, we provide a conceptual framework for how to think about this new decision space that managers must navigate. We identify internal factors (mental models) and external factors (social feasibility, institutional context, and scientific uncertainty) that shape management decisions. We then apply this conceptual framework to the RAD strategies (resist,...
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