Continued Partnerships to Increase Capacity for Tribal Natural Resource Adaptation Planning

Start Date

2016-09-01

End Date

2019-08-31

Release Date

2016

The Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions at the University of Arizona (UA) seeks to build on the success of the first phase of our Native Nations Climate Adaptation Program partnership to support the climate adaptation capacity of tribes in the Southwest. These investments leverage funding provided by the Southwest Climate Science Center, the Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice, the Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative and the UA Institute of the Environment. We are also starting to engage with another important UA partner, the Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management and Policy (NNI) at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, which promises an opportunity to leverage these efforts through tribal governance, outreach, training, and capacity-building. This new phase of our partnership will expand our capacity to work directly with tribes and scale-up our efforts to meet the needs of additional tribal partners. We focus in particular on expansion of our technical capacity to support on the ground adaptation efforts that will help with tribal engagement, grant writing, access to relevant climate information, and overcoming a range of existing governance barriers and building trust to design and implement on-the-ground climate adaptation strategies.

ScienceBase WMS

• National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers
• Southwest CASC