Building Capacity for Climate Adaptation
August 25, 12:00pm - 1:00pmMānoa Campus, East-West Center Research Program, Burns Hall, Room 3012
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Keith Bettinger
Team Leader for Capacity Building
USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific
Micah Fisher
PhD Candidate, Geography Department, University of Hawaii
East-West Center Student Affiliate
Kem Lowry
Adjunct Senior Fellow, East-West Center
Emeritus Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawaii
Thursday, August 25, 2016 12:00 noon to 1:00pm
John A. Burns Hall, Room 3012 (3rd floor)
Climate adaptation---a process of anticipating and reducing the adverse effects of climate change on humans and natural systems---is an urgent requirement of effective governance. Successful climate change adaptation requires enhanced public and private capacity to analyze climate threats at several geographic scales. It also requires strategies for educating key policy makers, business, community residents, and NGO leaders on the threats, opportunities and costs of local adaptation and the development and funding of adaptation strategies.
In 2013, USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific contracted with East West Center to develop a week long training course on urban climate change adaptation for urban managers, planners, and other local officials as well as NGOs working with Asian cities and smaller communities. The course introduces techniques for assessing local vulnerability to climate change and for developing and funding strategies for building greater community resilience to climate threats.
This session is an opportunity to learn more about course content and experiences in delivering the course a total of eight times to participants from more than twenty countries across South and Southeast Asia.
Event Sponsor
East-West Center, Research Program, Mānoa Campus
More Information
Laura Moriyama, 944-7444, Laura.Moriyama@eastwestcenter.org
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Building Capacity for Climate Adaptation Mānoa Campus, East-West Center Research Program, Burns Hall, Room 3012
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