The U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit: evidence of progress

The U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit ( toolkit.climate.gov ) is a federal website, launched in 2014, designed for state and local decision makers to bolster capacity for resilience to climate-related hazards. We document the development, conceptual foundation, and evolution of this toolkit to illustr...

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Published in:Climatic change 2019-04, Vol.153 (4), p.477-490
Main Authors: Gardiner, Edward P., Herring, David D., Fox, James F.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation
Atmospheric Sciences
Capacity
Case studies
Climate
Climate adaptation
Climate change
Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts
Climate science
Decision making
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
End users
Evolution
Frameworks
Framing
Government
Hazards
Resilience
Risk management
Toolkits
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Summary:The U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit ( toolkit.climate.gov ) is a federal website, launched in 2014, designed for state and local decision makers to bolster capacity for resilience to climate-related hazards. We document the development, conceptual foundation, and evolution of this toolkit to illustrate how to put data and tools into context for decision makers, namely by framing climate resilience within risk management, focusing on end users’ stories, and engaging directly with users. As this is the first effort to bring together multiple federal agencies’ tools, data, and case studies into a decision support platform, most attention has been given to framing climate adaptation and resilience. To that end, we introduce the Steps to Resilience, which incorporate risk management and decision making for climate-related hazards. The site structure and content support that framework. We introduce a five-part “Quality of Relationship” metric that helps our team define and measure success via the website and via engagement with end-users. Our results provide avenues for developers of similar toolkits to meaningfully present climate science to adaptation professionals and the decision makers they serve.
ISSN:0165-0009
1573-1480
DOI:10.1007/s10584-018-2216-0