USGS Midwest Climate Adaptation Science Center, United States
Climate adaptation is complex, dynamic, multi-scale challenge to both the scientific and resource management communities. Likely reflecting the scope and novelty of the challenge, in the last twenty years, we have produced little empirical evidence to guide implementation. To accelerate climate adaptation science, we might first acknowledge the complementary roles of the nongovernmental (e.g., risk-taking, innovation) and governmental (e.g., stability, enforcement) sectors. In the absence of dedicated funding, rapid progress can be made in the form of multi-phase projects, aggregated projects, or experimental management. The establishment of these partnerships will require partnership evaluations, collaborative workshops, leverage or in-kind contributions, and memoranda of agreement. In this session, I’ll demonstrate how such partnerships may yield rapid, low-cost, high-impact collaborations to accelerate climate adaptation science.
