Supplemental Guidance: Integration of Climate Change Scenario Planning into the Resource Stewardship Strategy Process
Dates
Publication Date
2020
Citation
2020, Supplemental Guidance: Integration of Climate Change Scenario Planning into the Resource Stewardship Strategy Process: National Park Service Data Store.
Summary
This document is a companion to the Resource Stewardship Strategy Development Guide, developed in 2019. This document provides a guide to more thoroughly address climate change in resource stewardship strategies through scenario planning. Scenario planning enables stakeholders to identify key climate sensitivities in resources and management concerns, examine a range of relevant and plausible future conditions, and explore management options that can be appropriate and effective across a range of potential futures. The intent of this guidance is to provide a repeatable methodology that the National Park Service can use to better incorporate scenarios and climate science into resource stewardship strategies.
Summary
This document is a companion to the Resource Stewardship Strategy Development Guide, developed in 2019. This document provides a guide to more thoroughly address climate change in resource stewardship strategies through scenario planning. Scenario planning enables stakeholders to identify key climate sensitivities in resources and management concerns, examine a range of relevant and plausible future conditions, and explore management options that can be appropriate and effective across a range of potential futures. The intent of this guidance is to provide a repeatable methodology that the National Park Service can use to better incorporate scenarios and climate science into resource stewardship strategies.
