Approaches, Challenges, and Opportunities for Achieving Climate-Smart Adaptation

Only five years ago, Halofsky et al. (2011) wrote: “For climate change adaptation, there is no recipe, no road map, and yet no time to lose; science and management partners must tackle the climate change issue in a timely way, despite uncertainty.” Later that same year, the National Wildlife Federation, in partnership with authors from federal, state, university, and other nongovernmental organizations, published one piece of a road map: Scanning the Conservation Horizon: A Guide to Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment (Glick, Stein, and Edelson 2011). The four steps described in Scanning, introduced in chapter 2, are an excellent introduction to developing and using climate change vulnerability assessments in planning and management of public lands.