Community Resilience to Climate Change: Theory, Research and Practice

164 STUDENT EXERCISES (1) Choose an existing municipal or regional climate plan. Read through and look for: - explicit references to “resilience” - focal areas of risk, exposure, or vulnerability - proposed solutions to climate-related problems (2) Prepare a 10 minute presentation answering the following questions: - How does this plan refer to and identify resilience? - For whom or what is resilience prioritized? (If the plan does not explicitly refer to “resilience,” try to determine who or what is targeted by planned interventions.) - Does this plan seem to view resilience and vulnerability through an engineering, ecological, social-ecological, ecosystem services, or other lens? - How, from your perspective, does the plan operationalize resilience? - What would you change in the plan? What is missing (if anything)? FOR INSTRUCTORS: CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES (1) Prompt: Explore an example of climate change adaptation in your city, and explain how it ties into resilience. [Instructor may offer an example for the students to consider, or let them think of their own. One example for Portland might be the role of bicycle infrastructure in adaptation and resilience.] (2) If possible, we suggest that you extend this section over multiple weeks and invite local practitioners to speak to the class about their work.