Capacity Building for Resilience: Successes and Challenges in Resource Management Adaptation Learning

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

5:10 PM – 5:18 PM MST

Location: Embassy Suites, Snowberry

Speaker(s)

Courtney Schultz, PhD

Professor
Colorado State University, United States

Co-Author(s)

Eliisa Carter, n/a

Research Associate IV
Public Lands Policy Group, Department of Forest & Rangeland Stewardship, Colorado State University, Colorado, United States

Adaptive capacity enables adjustment to climate change impacts. Enhancing adaptation learning is crucial in natural resource management. We explored how practitioners carry their experiences from Climate Change Response Framework courses into their work, identifying successes and barriers to building adaptive capacity and improvement areas of adaptation courses for effective implementation.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion, participants will be able to engage with existing adaptation learning resources, particularly offered by the Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science, while exploring potential efforts to address adaptation planning and implementation inside and outside their organization. We will draw upon the successes of Climate Change Response Framework Courses and promote ideas to embed adaptation learning into the work of participants, recounting what elements of the courses, and adaptation learning in general, were most successful in the experience of natural resource professionals.
Upon completion, participants will be able to identify and contemplate overcoming common hurdles natural resource professionals face in adaptation planning and implementation. Our presentation will discuss the challenges of implementing adaptation, often linked to the availability of resources, such as funding and personnel. Obstacles can also be contingent on the influence of external factors, such as public buy-in of adaptation activities, or potential tensions (and co-benefits) between adaptation and other management goals, such as recreation or passive forest management.