Taking Action on Climate Change in the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem
Nelson R, Carlson AA, Sexton E, Dyson IW, Hoang L. 2017. Taking Action on Climate Change in the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem. Pages 1-10. In Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene. Elsevier. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.10264-7
In the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem (“Crown”), a globally significant, transboundary landscape linking the southern Canada and northern US Rockies (Fig. 1), climate warming is occurring at nearly twice the rate of the global average (Pederson et al., 2010). Spanning numerous public, aboriginal, and private lands, jurisdictional fragmentation adds complexity to the above challenges of successfully implementing climate change adaptation. We describe here a new and innovative partnership between public land and wildlife management agencies, environmental nongovernmental organizations (NGO’s), tribes and First Nations, academic researchers, and community stakeholders underway in the Crown region that seeks to dismantle these barriers and promote the implementation of climate adaptation strategies and actions across the landscape. This emergent initiative, the Crown Adaptation Partnership, is a stakeholder-driven process that brings together actors across all jurisdictions to establish a shared understanding of climate change threats, prioritize climate conservation targets, identify effective climate change adaptation strategies, catalyze management action, and enhance shared learning through an adaptive management approach. We believe our emerging effort provides a new model for collaborative, climate-informed conservation at a large landscape scale, and describe here the origin of the partnership, our model of success, and lessons learned to date in hopes of inspiring similar progress toward landscape-scale climate adaptation action elsewhere.
- Type
- Book Chapter
- Authors
- Nelson, R; Carlson, A; Sexton, E; Dyson, I; Hoang, L
- Units
- CRCO , GLAC
- Keywords
- adaptation, climate change, crown of the continent, transboundary
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Air and Climate | Weather and Climate | Weather and Climate