Climate Change: Adaptation Tools and Guides

US Drought Portal

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The US Drought Portal allows practitioners to access and interact with drought and climate related data, including maps and graphing capabilities, to help understand drought and how it changes over time. It's meant to provide early warning about emerging and anticipated droughts, assimilate and quality control data about droughts and models, provide information about risk and impact of droughts to different agencies and stakeholders, provide information about past droughts for comparison and to understand current conditions, explain how to plan for and manage the impacts of droughts, and provide a forum for different stakeholders to discuss drought-related issues.

E-Learning: Adapting Your Infrastructure To Climate Change

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Municipalities, and those that provide services to them, must become familiar with the resources available to help assess and address climate change implications on infrastructure services within a given region. Intended for those responsible for/involved in impact assessment, risk evaluation and response planning in support of climate change adaptation of infrastructure (e.g. Municipal staff, Elected officials and Professional service providers), the Canadian Standards Association’s Adapting Your Infrastructure to Climate Change, provides a roadmap of available tools and techniques that support vulnerability assessment, risk evaluation and response planning