2009 Climate Clinic Overview and Continued Learning
Page Updated: September 30, 2011
The Climate Adaptation Clinic was held in Salt Lake City, Utah in early September 2009. The clinic consisted of 20 projects from around the Conservancy developing climate adaptation strategies for their work, five simultaneous "Efroymson" workshops, and a total of fifty-one CAP coaches who participated in the clinic as classroom facilitators or on project teams.
2009 Climate Clinic Pages
The Climate Adaptation Clinic was held in Salt Lake City, Utah in early September 2009. The clinic consisted of 20 projects from around the Conservancy developing climate adaptation strategies for their work, five simultaneous "Efroymson" workshops, and a total of fifty-one CAP coaches who participated in the clinic as classroom facilitators or on project teams.
Two important clinic results are highlighted below:
- Project-level adaptation planning guidance. This page contains a guidance document written for experienced CAP practitioners that outlines our current thinking on how to incorporate climate change considerations into a CAP.
- Climate clinic paper on projects and adaptation strategies. Redesigning biodiversity conservation projects for climate change: examples from the field examines Conservancy adaptation strategies developed at the clinic.
DOCUMENTS, RESOURCES, & DISCUSSION
Summary Review of Events
- Themed-Group Session Summaries (Short overview of conversations in the room over the week)
- Notes on Emerging Themes from Day 1 and 2 of the Climate Adaptation Clinic (53kb .doc)
- TNC Science Leaders speak about the Climate Clinic (Following the Climate Clinic, comments by KarenP, JonH, PeterK)
- After Action Reviews (Following the Climate Clinic, by Project Teams and others)
Presentations from the Clinic
- Conservation Action in the Face of Climate Change by E Zavaleta (Note: Allow time for download of 5MB .ppt file)
- Clinic Closing Presentation: What did we Learn: A brief synthesis by Groves (3MB .pptm file)
- The Wisdom of Crowds, by James Surowiecki (Book referenced by JonH at the Clinic)
Project Team Materials
- Conceptual Models Document (examples from the Climate Clinic)
- Final Hypothesis of Change, by individual project (Updated by all teams after the Climate Clinic)
- HOCs compiled in one document, all workshops/all projects: All Project docs
- HOCs compiled in one document, for Grasslands workshop: GRASSLANDS
- HOCs compiled in one document, for Wetlands workshop: WETLANDS
- HOCs compiled in one document, for Regional workshop: REGIONAL
- HOCs compiled in one document, for Coastal Marine workshop: COASTAL MARINE
- HOCs compiled in one document, for Mountains workshop: MOUNTAINS
Impacts and Strategies Identified by Project Teams
Bibliography used by Clinic Participants
CAP Coaches
Planning and Prep-Work for the Clinic
- Climate Adaptation Clinic Projects - Projects participating in the 2009 and their clinic proposals
- Clinic Project Preparation - Guidance on the process that project teams went through to prepare for the clinic.
- September 2009 Logistic Details for Clinic Participants
