Adaptation Examples
This greenhouse in Tok, Alaska helps provide fresh produce for area residents.
Each of these sample adaptation plans has a different focus:
- Subsistence (Tlingit and Haida)
- Culture (Oscarville)
- Infrastructure (Shaktoolik)
- Community health (Nome)
These plans are based on conversations, vulnerability assessments, monitoring, mitigation, and decisions about the focus of adaptation for a community.
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| Title | Summary |
|---|---|
| Adapt Fisheries | This project collaborated with three of the most highly dependent and diverse fishing communities in the region—Cordova, Kodiak, and Sitka—to develop fisheries adaptation plans. The work was led by community organizations: the Prince William Sound Science Center (Cordova), the Alaska Marine Conservation Council (Kodiak), and the Alaska Sustainable Fisheries Trust (Sitka). These organizations partnered with communities in their regions to ensure planning efforts were inclusive of broader regional climate impacts and resilience needs, and to synergize existing community plans for hazard management, economic development, and climate resilience. |
| Chilkat Indian Village Resilience Plan | The Chilkat Indian Village Environmental Department completed a resilience plan for the village of Tlákw Aan (Klukwan) in 2023. The resilience plan is focused on climate change impacts to critical infrastructure in Tlákw Aan and to plants and animals that are of cultural importance to the Chilkat Indian Village (CIV) and its Tribal Members. |
| Chugach Region: Generations of Change StoryMap | The Chugach Regional Resources Commission presents a StoryMap encompassing the experience of seven generations in southcentral Alaska – the three that preceded us, our current generation, and the three that will follow. The StoryMap includes data on recent challenges and changes in the region, but also stories of adaptation and resilience among Chugach tribes. |
| Climate Adaptation Plan Template for Tribes in Southeast Alaska | The Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes has produced a climate adaptation plan (CAP) template for Tribes in Southeast Alaska. |
| Climate Adaptation Planning in Alaska | The attached report and accompanying StoryMap provide an overview of the current state of climate adaptation planning across Alaska. |
| Copper River Climate Change Adaptation Plan | The Copper River Native Association (CRNA), with support from various partners, created a climate change adaptation plan to address risks like flooding, permafrost thaw, and shifts in wildlife that threaten subsistence practices in the Copper River Valley. |
| Kodiak Climate Adaptation Plan | The Kodiak Area Native Association, with funding from the Bureau of Indian Affairs Tribal Climate Resilience Program and Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy, developed a comprehensive climate adaptation plan over the course of the two-year project. |
| WAGE Report | This report authored by Alaska Sea Grant shines a light on the challenges remote communities face in taking advantage of resources for addressing environmental threats caused by a rapidly warming Arctic. It provides insight and details regarding climate adaptation planning across the state and recommendations for federal funding agencies, community planners, nonprofits, and others to help them get assistance to all communities in need. |