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Presentation Abstract
Coastal communities in the Salish Sea are facing unprecedented challenges as climate change continues to evolve. A five-year project collaboration between the Pacific Salmon Foundation and the Stewardship Centre for BC, called Resilient Coasts for Salmon: Nature-based Solutions for Climate Change (RC4S), is working to empower citizens by providing nature-based solutions that encourage resiliency for coastal communities and ecosystems. Utilizing a multifaceted approach, RC4S is raising public awareness about climate change impacts in local South and East Coast Vancouver Island communities and nature-based solutions to help adapt to those threats. RC4S is also building professional capacity in shoreline restoration through Green Shores® training, and creating opportunities for community members to learn about their local shorelines through a citizen science mapping project and Green Shores demonstration sites. The demonstration sites will also create visibility for nature-based solutions in action and will be developed in partnership with First Nations and other local governments such as the K’ómoks First Nation, Comox Valley Regional District, Capital Regional District, as well as stewardship groups and organizations, such as World Wildlife Fund Canada, and Peninsula Streams. All project elements are intended to address the findings from a preliminary survey showing that although the majority (74%) of local Vancouver Island community members are concerned about climate change, most (79%) had only minimal or moderate knowledge of what the predicted climate change impacts are for communities along the Salish Sea. The underlying vision for the project is to empower citizens to develop resiliency to climate change, now and into the future.
Session Title
Poster Session 4: People Working Together to Protect the Salish Sea
Conference Track
SSE14: Posters
Conference Name
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference (2022 : Online)
Document Type
Event
SSEC Identifier
SSE-posters-171
Start Date
27-4-2022 4:30 PM
End Date
27-4-2022 5:00 PM
Type of Presentation
Poster
Genre/Form
conference proceedings; presentations (communicative events)
Contributing Repository
Digital content made available by University Archives, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University.
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Pacific Salmon--Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.); Climatic changes--Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.); Coastal zone management--Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.); Shorelines--Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.)
Geographic Coverage
Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.)
Rights
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Type
Text
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
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Resilient Coasts for Salmon - Empowering Communities with Nature-based Solutions to Adapt to Climate Change
Coastal communities in the Salish Sea are facing unprecedented challenges as climate change continues to evolve. A five-year project collaboration between the Pacific Salmon Foundation and the Stewardship Centre for BC, called Resilient Coasts for Salmon: Nature-based Solutions for Climate Change (RC4S), is working to empower citizens by providing nature-based solutions that encourage resiliency for coastal communities and ecosystems. Utilizing a multifaceted approach, RC4S is raising public awareness about climate change impacts in local South and East Coast Vancouver Island communities and nature-based solutions to help adapt to those threats. RC4S is also building professional capacity in shoreline restoration through Green Shores® training, and creating opportunities for community members to learn about their local shorelines through a citizen science mapping project and Green Shores demonstration sites. The demonstration sites will also create visibility for nature-based solutions in action and will be developed in partnership with First Nations and other local governments such as the K’ómoks First Nation, Comox Valley Regional District, Capital Regional District, as well as stewardship groups and organizations, such as World Wildlife Fund Canada, and Peninsula Streams. All project elements are intended to address the findings from a preliminary survey showing that although the majority (74%) of local Vancouver Island community members are concerned about climate change, most (79%) had only minimal or moderate knowledge of what the predicted climate change impacts are for communities along the Salish Sea. The underlying vision for the project is to empower citizens to develop resiliency to climate change, now and into the future.
