[Coral-List] new tool to assess social vulnerability to climate change
Christy Loper
christy.loper at noaa.gov
Wed May 11 22:24:25 EDT 2011
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the availability of a new tool for assessing
social vulnerability to climate change. The new guidelines, "Indicators
to assess community-level social vulnerability to climate change" are
now available for download at www.socmon.org <http://www.socmon.org> (or
use the following link: http://www.socmon.org/download.ashx?docid=64614
). We wish to emphasize that this represents a first draft for public
circulation and field testing and look forward to receiving suggestions
for improvement from our partners in the field.
The purpose of this document is to provide a minimum set of
socioeconomic indicators related to climate change. These can be
included in a socioeconomic assessment of any site for which climate
change impacts are an important issue. The resulting information can
then inform coastal management needs and adaptive management. This
document meant to serve as an addendum to regional socioeconomic
monitoring guidelines produced by the Global Socioeconomic Monitoring
Initiative for Coastal Management (SocMon) and its Pacific counterpart,
SEM-Pasifika, which aim to improve site management of coastal and marine
areas by providing simple, user-friendly guidelines on how to conduct a
socioeconomic assessment. Such assessments help coastal managers
incorporate community views into adaptive management of marine resources.
Funding for this publication was provided by the Secretariat for the
Pacific Environment Programme (SPREP) through the Coral Reef InitiativeS
for the Pacific (CRISP) and IUCN. In-kind support was provided by The
Nature Conservancy and the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program.
best,
Supin Wongbusarakum, TNC and Christy Loper, NOAA
--
Christy Loper, Ph.D.
Coral Reef Conservation Program
US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
1305 East West Highway
Silver Spring, MD 20910
1-301-713-3155 x155
christy.loper at noaa.gov
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