Planning
Environmental planner Alaina Rogers attended the 2020 Annual Climate Networks meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 10. New Hampshire Coastal Adaptation Workgroup (CAW) and Maine’s Climate Change Adaptation Providers Network (CCAP) partnered on this event to help stakeholders better recognize the important tradeoffs in government systems when making equitable decisions about land use and planned relocation.
The meeting took place in two sessions, the first of which focused on “Pushing Past Structural Limits to Adaptation.” Linda Shi, PhD. Cornell University Dep. Of City and Regional Planning, presented on the intersection of land use and planned relocation, municipal funding structure impacts, and equity considerations. Shi’s discussion of Maine and New Hampshire’s reliance on property taxes and what municipalities will do about potential tax losses from long-term sea-level rise was especially insightful. She explained that while “building our way out of it” has historically been the answer, it’s a short-term solution. Shi then elaborated on long term solutions.
The second session “Voice, Equity, and Communication Action Planning” included a presentation by Bridie McGreavy, PhD. University of Maine Department of Communication and Journalism and the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions. McGreavy focused on answering the question “How can communication action planning promote voice in collaborative policy development and coastal adaptation planning?” She invited participants to discuss current techniques used for collaborative policy development promoting voice.
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