Continued Partnerships to Increase Capacity for Tribal Natural Resource Adaptation Planning
Partnership to Increase Capacity for Tribal Climate Adaptation Planning
Dates
Start Date
2016-09-01
End Date
2019-08-31
Release Date
2016
Summary
For centuries, tribal and indigenous communities have relied on natural resources to sustain their families, communities, traditional ways of life, and cultural identities. This relationship with both land and water ecosystems makes indigenous people and cultures particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In 2015, the Southwest Climate Science Center partnered with the University of Arizona Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions (CCASS) to develop regional capacity for engagement with tribes to support climate change adaptation. CCASS is now building on the success of the 2015 project and is strengthening partnerships to support the climate adaptation capacity of tribes in the Southwest. CCASS is identifying [...]
Summary
For centuries, tribal and indigenous communities have relied on natural resources to sustain their families, communities, traditional ways of life, and cultural identities. This relationship with both land and water ecosystems makes indigenous people and cultures particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In 2015, the Southwest Climate Science Center partnered with the University of Arizona Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions (CCASS) to develop regional capacity for engagement with tribes to support climate change adaptation.
CCASS is now building on the success of the 2015 project and is strengthening partnerships to support the climate adaptation capacity of tribes in the Southwest. CCASS is identifying collaborative networks among researchers, tribal members, and other partners and is supporting outreach and extension work related to tribes in climate adaptation planning and implementation. CCASS is also planning to build on a meeting held in 2015 and hold a 2nd meeting with adaptation practitioners who specialize in tribal climate adaptation to share experiences, build capacity, promote collaboration and share best practices among several groups. CCASS will also continue to work with the Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative to support scenario planning and landscape-scale adaptation planning efforts.
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Purpose
The Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions at the University of Arizona (UA) seeks to build on the success of the first phase of our Native Nations Climate Adaptation Program partnership to support the climate adaptation capacity of tribes in the Southwest. These investments leverage funding provided by the Southwest Climate Science Center, the Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice, the Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative and the UA Institute of the Environment. We are also starting to engage with another important UA partner, the Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management and Policy (NNI) at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, which promises an opportunity to leverage these efforts through tribal governance, outreach, training, and capacity-building.
This new phase of our partnership will expand our capacity to work directly with tribes and scale-up our efforts to meet the needs of additional tribal partners. We focus in particular on expansion of our technical capacity to support on the ground adaptation efforts that will help with tribal engagement, grant writing, access to relevant climate information, and overcoming a range of existing governance barriers and building trust to design and implement on-the-ground climate adaptation strategies.
Project Extension
projectStatus
In Progress
Budget Extension
annualBudgets
year
2016
totalFunds
106921.96
year
2017
totalFunds
167960.11
parts
type
Award Type
value
Cooperative Agreement
type
Award Number
value
G16AC00259
totalFunds
274882.07
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Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, Arizona - Credit: Alan Cressler