Climate Change Adaptation planning Manual for Coastal Alaskans and Marine-Dependent Communities

This document includes an adaptation checklist, talking points for leading adaptation discussions, a checklist of items to take to a community meeting, a rough‐draft sample community adaptation plan, selected resources, sample preparedness measures, and samples of goals, objectives, and measures. The final appendix contains a set of worksheets with spaces for stakeholders to enter answers to questions about observed climate‐related changes, adaptation measures, risks, and others. The Planning Tool is intended to be used in community planning sessions and is the document stakeholders are likely to work with directly. 

This manual has two companion documents, also freely available from the Alaska Sea Grant bookstore:

1. The Alaska Climate Change Adaptation Planning Tool, an abbreviated version of the eight steps to adaptation planning outlined in the manual, and
2. The Shaktoolik Adaptation Plan, an example of how the manual was developed and employed in community planning.