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Responses to Climate Change Program

Pilots and Demonstrations

RCC Program Home		Team Identification
Adaptation Challenges and Opportunities		Pilots and Demonstrations
Adaptation Implementation Framework		Regional Climate Impact Assessments
Climate Change Adaptation Communication		Regulatory Aspects of Climate Change and Adaptation
Coastal Storm Adaptation		Sea-Level Change Adaptation
Ecosystem Adaptation		Snow, Glacial, Ice Impacts and Adaptation
Greenhouse Gas Accounting		Vulnerability Assessments and Reporting
Hydrology to Support Adaptation		Water Management Adaptation

Climate change adaptation is urgently needed, particularly for infrastructure and missions with a public safety component. USACE is serious about planning and implementing climate change adaptation. Our senior leadership has and will continue to stress the importance of meeting the challenges to water resources management posed by climate change – and the opportunities as well. We understand that effective climate adaptation and mitigation must be integrated throughout the project life-cycle, and we intend to develop the policies, methods and technologies to do so. We must anticipate surprise and unexpected events, both natural and socioeconomic, and be able to respond effectively in a timely manner. Pilot tests and demonstration of adaptation processes, methods and technologies will allow us to explore the intended and unintended consequences of our adaptation strategies and are a foundation of this program. Our initial program includes two pilots addressing climate change impacts to river sedimentation, to be conducted in coordination with two projects underway by Bureau of Reclamation in different parts of the same basins.

revised 17 November 2011

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