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Adaptation
What is adaptation?
Adaptation: Adjustment in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climatic stimuli or their effects,
which moderates harm or exploits beneficial opportunities. (IPCC, Climate Change 2007).
More simply, adaptation is taking action to minimize the impacts of actual or expected climate change. It is reducing
the vulnerability of people and places to the effects of climate change. It is also embracing positive consequences
of climate change.
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• Shore protection to prevent rising sea-level from flooding coastal land
• Relocation of native villages from coast of Alaska
• Water management-water conservation, planning for alternative water resources
• Restoring ecosystems and building ecological resilience
• Altered agricultural practices- new planting and harvesting dates; growing different crops better suited to new climate |
Go the  Planning page in the Resources
to find websites and documents that may help your tribe with climate change planning.
Adaptation Strategies
Pacific Northwest
- Trying to Stem the Tide
Goskagit.com article about impacts of climate change, and adaptation planning by Swinomish Indian Tribe, Aug. 4, 2009. @2009
Skagit Publishing
www.goskagit.com/home/article/trying_to_stem_the_tide/
- Swinomish Climate Change Initiative
Website about Swinomish Indian Tribal Community's project to assess local impacts, identify vulnerabilities, and
prioritize planning areas and actions to address the possible effects of climate change. The ultimate goal is to
develop a community action plan that will also be shared as a model to assist other tribal governments and
jurisdictions with implementing strategic climate change planning policies and actions within their local
communities.
www.swinomish-nsn.gov/departments/planning/climate_change/climate_main.html
Southwest and Great Basin
Relocation of Alaska Native Villages
- Video: Climate Change Migrants--USA
Impacts of climate change and need for relocation of Shishmaref.
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=W_8Ar-5UH8s&feature=related 
- S.O.S. Project--Save Our Shishmaref (Shishmaref School)
Students are raising funds for relocating Shishmaref.
http://shishmaref.bssd.org/sos/
- Shishmaref Erosion and Relocation Coalition
The Inupiaq community of Shishmaref, located on a small island in NW Alaska, needs to be relocated to the mainland because
of beachfront erosion and vulnerability to storms.
www.shishmarefrelocation.com/index.html
- Video: Alaskan Village Copes With Real-life Impacts of Global Climate Change
9-minute segment of NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (PBS) about Shishmaref, Newtok, and Kivalina, AK. July 10, 2008.
www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/environment/july-dec08/alaskawarming_07-10.html
- Flooded Village Files Suit, Citing Corporate Link to Climate Change
New York Times article about Alaska Native Village of Kivalina's lawsuit holding 5 oil companies, 14 electric utilities
and the country's largest coal company responsible for the village's need to relocate in response to climate change
impacts. Feb. 27, 2008.
www.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/us/27alaska.html?_r=1&oref=slogin#
- Victim of Climate Change, a Town Seeks a Lifeline
New York Times article about Newtok, AK, May 27, 2007.
www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/us/27newtok.html?ex=1337918400&en=7e93b10cdd7c61d0&ei=5090
- Living in Kivalina
Los Angeles Times photos of coastal village of Kivalina, AK, and seawall built to hold back the sea.
www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-sci-kivalina-pg,0,552375.photogallery?1
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