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Planning for Global Sea-Level Rise in Oregon, U.S.A.

Document Type

Technical Report

Publication Date

2013

Subjects

Sea level -- Environmental aspects -- Oregon, Climatic changes -- Environmental impacts -- Oregon, Climate Action Program

Abstract

Forward by:

Phillip Johnson, Executive Director Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition

The Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition’s "Coastal Climate Change Adaptation Project" is under development as an experiment in grassroots organizing for adaptive planning for expected climate change impacts. Oregon Shores is a regional conservation group with a 40-year history of working to protect marine, shoreline, estuarine and other coastal habitats. The organization’s board and staff came to recognize that the likely effects of climate change—rising sea levels, more intensive storm surges, increased erosion, lower-river flooding, among others—would affect every aspect of the group’s work. Consequently, a new program, the Climate Action Program, was created to address the need for long-range adaptive planning to preserve the resilience of communities, both human and natural. Oregon Shores’ premise in developing the Coastal Climate Change Adaptation Project is that for adaptive planning to be meaningful, broad community acceptance and support are necessary. The project is thus designed as a grassroots effort, with the aim of developing broad support before any proposal should be submitted to local governments.

Description

The Coastal Education & Research Foundation (CERF) is a nonprofit scientific society dedicated to the advancement of the coastal sciences and is devoted to the multidisciplinary study of the complex problems within and around the coastal zone. The original instance can be found here. http://www.cerf-jcr.org/

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/10598

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