Sustainable Adaptation: a Metrics Perspective
One of the most important long-term climate adaptation challenges is how to motivate - and sustain – appropriate capital investments and...
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We will provide occasional posts on issues we feel are relevant and where engagement with the broader Higher Ground Friend's community is welcome.
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Karl Schultz
Dec 11, 20203 min read
We live with a system replete with disincentives to sustainable adaptation
Over this blog series I’ll aim to describe and consider alternatives to the following systemic dysfunctions
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Barrett Ristroph
Sep 17, 20208 min read
The Morasses of Louisiana’s Coastal Wetland Restoration, Part 2
This is Part 2 of a two-part blog. The first part of the blog considered the causes of land loss and what the State of Louisiana has done...
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Barrett Ristroph
Sep 10, 20206 min read
The Morasses of Louisiana’s Coastal Wetland Restoration, Part 1
Once far-fetched, ideas of reclaiming and recreating land don’t seem so strange anymore.
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Paul Forte
Jul 15, 20204 min read
A Whole System Perspective is Critical for Sustainable Climate Adaptation - The HGF View
Adopting a whole system approach is likely to afford the best means to try and understand and meet the challenges which lie ahead.
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Blake Gentry
Jul 15, 20201 min read
Summary for Climate Adaptation and Indigenous Response in the Arctic Blogs
I. Alaskan and Canadian Arctic Warming This blog reviews current arctic Alaskan and Canadian climate conditions and...
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Blake Gentry
Apr 17, 20206 min read
IV. Arctic Climate Adaptation Policy Making
This 4th and final blog in the series, Climate Adaptation and Indigenous Response, in the Arctic reviews the gaps in approaches used for...
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Blake Gentry
Apr 9, 20205 min read
III. Climate Adaptation and Indigenous Migration
This 3rd blog in the series, Climate Adaptation and Indigenous Response in the Arctic, illustrates some ethical, legal, and practical...
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Blake Gentry
Mar 31, 202011 min read
II. Native Peoples and Permafrost in Alaska
This 2nd blog in the Series, Climate Adaptation and Indigenous Response in the Arctic, explores the human impacts of permafrost melt and...
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Blake Gentry
Feb 13, 20206 min read
I. Alaskan and Canadian Arctic Warming
This blog in the Series, Climate Adaptation and Indigenous Response in the Arctic, reviews current arctic Alaskan and Canadian climate...
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Karl Schultz
Feb 11, 20201 min read
Summary for Climate Adaptation and Indigenous Response in the Arctic Blogs
Measuring this climate driven transformation of landscape is part of an unfolding reality of climate change in Alaska.
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Karl Schultz
Feb 4, 20203 min read
Series Forward: A problem solving series on Utiqiagvik’s life altering climate change
this community (as with others in Alaska and Canada) may have to move or, in effect, die.
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Karl Schultz
Nov 28, 20193 min read
Machine Learning, Adaptation, and VRCs
In many ways, the Higher Ground Foundation can be said to be a part of the “risk community”, which is exemplified by traditional...
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Blake Gentry
Mar 28, 20196 min read
Mocoa’s Lessons for Indigenous Communities and Adaptation
“Holistic” is perhaps an over-applied term but, the challenge will be to develop incentives to plan for climate adaptation.
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