GEOS Institute

Climate Resilience Strategies Database for the Resilience Ecosystem ($50,000)

Recipient: GEOS Institute

Project Partners: Adaptation International, Azavea, NOAA, NEMAC/Fernleaf, Aspen Global Change Institute, ASAP

The Climate Resilience Strategy Database aims to address a significant gap in the Resilience Ecosystem. Neither professional practitioners nor local leaders working in communities are currently able to access up-to-date information regarding the effectiveness and tradeoffs of possible resilience strategies for the climate vulnerabilities they have identified. The lack of this information is slowing individual planning processes and inhibiting the ability of the larger field to share critically important information about what strategies are working, where different strategies may be appropriate, and the impacts of specific strategies on social equity and ecological systems. The Climate Resilience Strategies Database brings those strategies together, along with information about what should be considered with each strategy in terms of social equity, effects on ecosystems, and impact on mitigation efforts, in a free, searchable database that will be kept current over time by engagement with the Resilience Ecosystem.