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Western Adaptation Alliance Network Strengthening Webinar with Pete Plastrik, Innovation Network for Communities
This webinar is the third in a series of virtual workshops serving the Western Adaptation Alliance (WAA), a “learning network” of eleven local governments across the Front Range, Intermountain and Desert Southwest Region of the Western United States which have self-organized to collaborate on the increasingly urgent challenge of preparing urban areas in arid/semi-arid environments for the impacts of global climate change.
The webinar was set up to help with generating ideas for how to strengthen the WAA learning network so as to maximize the value and benefits it provides to its membership. During first half of the webinar, Pete shares a general overview of networks and how they function, using specific data from the most recent WAA network survey.- Climate Adaptation & Resilience
May 6, 2013Resource Guide
Gulf Coast Resilient Communities Program: A Resource Guide for Local Leaders
The Resource Guide for the first GCRC workshop. It includes an a review of the workshop themes, summaries of team, and three case studies on community resilience.- Climate Adaptation & Resilience
Apr 15, 2013
New Orleans, LAPresentation
Welcoming Remarks by Michael Crowley, Senior Program Officer, Institute for Sustainable Communities
An overview of the GCRC program and the results of the needs/wants interviews.- Climate Adaptation & Resilience
Apr 15, 2013
New Orleans, LAPresentation
Plenary: Planning to Protect: How to be more ready for a changing climate. Presentation by Dr. Lynne Carter, Associate Director of the Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program, LSU.
A look at some of the climate changes already observed in the Gulf Coast, and implications for planners.- Climate Adaptation & Resilience
Apr 15, 2013
New Orleans, LAPresentation
Plenary: Understanding and Communicating Climate Vulnerabilities in the Gulf. Presentation by Dr. Tracie Sempier, Coastal Storms Outreach Coordinator, MS-AL Sea Grant Consortium.
A summary of the results of a climate change perception survey in the Gulf Coast.- Climate Adaptation & Resilience
Apr 15, 2013
New Orleans, LAPresentation
Concurrent Session: Communicating to Change Behavior. Presentation by Larissa Graham, Coastal Training Program Coordinator, Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve.
An overview Community-Based Social Marketing tools and techniques- Climate Adaptation & Resilience
Apr 15, 2013
New Orleans, LAPresentation
Community Mapping Clinic overview. Presentation by Dr. Pam Jenkins, CHART, University of New Orleans
Opening remarks for a community mapping clinic that includes definitions of nearby, functional, knowledge-based, therapeutic, and corrosive communities.- Climate Adaptation & Resilience
Apr 15, 2013
New Orleans, LAPresentation
Keynote: People are the Key to the Solutions – Cultural Hind-Cast must Precede Restoration Forecasts. Presentation by Dr. Don Davis, Director Emeritus of Oral Histories, Louisiana Sea Grant College Program
A look at the cultural and oral history of the Gulf Coast in the context of climate change and subsidence.- Climate Adaptation & Resilience
Apr 15, 2013
New Orleans, LAPresentation
Lunch Keynote: “Working Together to Protect and Restore Coastal Lands.”
Presentation by Dr. Douglas Meffert, Executive Director, Louisiana Audubon Society- Climate Adaptation & Resilience
Apr 15, 2013
New Orleans, LAVideo
The Colorado River Basin Study – Considering Scenarios for Managing Western Water Supply & Demand in an Uncertain Future
Presenter: Carly Jerla, Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Department of the Interior
This webinar was the first in a series of virtual workshops serving the Western Adaptation Alliance (WAA), a “learning network” of eleven local governments across the Front Range, Intermountain and Desert Southwest Region of the Western United States which have self-organized to collaborate on the increasingly urgent challenge of preparing urban areas in arid/semi-arid environments for the impacts of global climate change. WAA member communities and interested colleagues were invited to view a presentation on the Colorado River Basin Study (http://www.usbr.gov/lc/region/programs/crbstudy.html) and participate in a facilitated conversation on implications these findings present for water resource management in Western cities. Participants learned about the scenario planning approach used in the study, considered options and strategies the study explored to help resolve water supply and demand imbalances, and offered input to the Bureau of Reclamation.
PLEASE NOTE: The first several minutes of this webinar recording contains some audio distortion. To skip forward to Carly’s full presentation, please advance the video to minute 8:11.- Climate Adaptation & Resilience
Mar 21, 2013Resource Guide
Resource Guide, V4.0, Sustainable Communities Leadership Academy, Arlington, VA
This Resource Guide complements the Sustainable Communities Leadership Academy held in Arlington, Virginia, March 13-15, 2013. The guide features case studies showcasing promising practices in sustainable economic development, smart growth, transportation, and collaboration. The guide also includes profiles of the grantee teams that attended the event, each of which has funding through the federal Partnership for Sustainable Communities.- Sustainable Communities & Economies
- Sustainable Communities
Mar 13, 2013
Arlington, VAVideo
Plenary: It Takes More than Money: Building Capacity to Attract and Deploy Private Capital Investment
Presentation by Salin Geevarghese, Senior Advisor, HUD Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities; Robin Hacke, Director of Capital Formation, Living Cities; David Wood, Director, Initiative for Responsible Investment, Harvard University; Mary Kay Bailey, Project Director, Corridors of Opportunity/Living Cities Integration Initiative, Minnesota Philanthropy Partners. A presentation of the Capital Absorption Framework developed by Living Cities. The framework was developed to help communities make effective use of different forms of capital to provide needed goods and services to underserved communities. Presenters used this as a guided working session in which teams participated in capital absorption self assessment exercises at their tables.- Sustainable Communities & Economies
- Sustainable Communities
Mar 13, 2013
Arlington, VAPresentation
The Bridge to Better Development: 3CDC and the Revitalization of Urban Cincinnati
Presentation by Steve Leeper, CEO, Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation. The story of 3CDC’s success in redeveloping and revitalizing Cincinnati’s central business district and over-the-Rhine neighborhood after years of neglect, crime, and disinvestment.- Sustainable Communities & Economies
- Sustainable Communities
Mar 13, 2013
Arlington, VAPresentation
It Takes More than Money: Building Capacity to Attract and Deploy Private Capital Investment
Presentation by Robin Hacke, Director of Capital Formation, Living Cities; David Wood, Director, Initiative for Responsible Investment, Harvard University; and Mary Kay Bailey, Minnesota Philanthropy Partners. A presentation of the Capital Absorption Framework developed by Living Cities. The framework was developed to help communities make effective use of different forms of capital to provide needed goods and services to underserved communities.- Sustainable Communities & Economies
- Sustainable Communities
Mar 13, 2013
Arlington, VAPresentation
Welcoming Remarks SCLA Introduction
Presentation by Christopher Forinash, Program Director, Institute for Sustainable Communities.- Sustainable Communities & Economies
- Sustainable Communities
Mar 13, 2013
Arlington, VAVideo
Transforming the Region: From Partnership to Plan to Performance
Presentation by Shelley Poticha, Director, Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities, HUD; Marc Draisen, Executive Director, Metropolitan Area Planning Council; and Bob Dean, Deputy Executive Director, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
HUD’s Shelley Poticha introduces two grantee communities—Boston’s Metropolitan Area Planning Council and Chicago’s Metropolitan Agency for Planning—to share their work advancing sustainability at the regional scale.- Sustainable Communities & Economies
- Sustainable Communities
Mar 13, 2013
Arlington, VA- Sustainable Communities & Economies
- Sustainable Communities
Mar 13, 2013
Arlington, VAVideo
Welcoming Remarks - Day 1
Presentation by Christopher Forinash, Program Director, Institute for Sustainable Communities and Shelley Poticha, Director, Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)- Sustainable Communities & Economies
- Sustainable Communities
Mar 13, 2013
Arlington, VAVideo
The Bridge to Better Development: 3CDC and the Revitalization of Urban Cincinnati
Presentation by Steve Leeper, CEO, Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation
The story of 3CDC’s success in redeveloping and revitalizing Cincinnati’s central business district and over-the-Rhine neighborhood after years of neglect, crime, and disinvestment.- Sustainable Communities & Economies
- Sustainable Communities
Mar 13, 2013
Arlington, VACase Study
Opportunity Mapping in Mississippi's Gulf Coast
Over the past decade, social scientists at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University (OSU) have developed the "Communities of Opportunity" framework. This framework, and specifically the opportunity mapping tool, allow planners to visualize the geospatial distribution of equity issues. The Kirwan Institute is now working with planners along Mississippi's Gulf Coast to utilize this tool in conjunction with their regional planning efforts funded through a HUD Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant. This tool is enabling planners in the three coastal counties to better understand the equity issues in their region and to remove barriers, find solutions, and create opportunities for regional prosperity.
*Note: Originally posted on March 5th, 2012. Updated version as of Jan. 14th, 2013.- Sustainable Communities & Economies
- Sustainable Communities
- Gulf Coast Sustainable Economies
Jan 14, 2013
New Orleans, LA &
Gulf Coast, MS
