Introducing: GIS for Climate Resilience curriculum
Apply the geographic approach for climate resilience planning
Why apply GIS to Climate Resilience?
Climate change threatens many aspects of our lives, especially our communities and the places we care about. From intensifying heat waves, wildfires, sea level rise, and more, it is important for communities to plan for a future that includes these new realities.
Location plays a vital role in understanding and building resilience to the impacts of climate change. Cultivating skills in GIS and spatial thinking empowers learners and organizations to be positive change agents through analytical skills, manage and plan for climate change, and achieve their missions to benefit their communities.
What can I expect in the curriculum?
From community planners to community members, the GIS for Climate Resilience Curriculum contains hands-on tutorials to enhance the geospatial capacity of anyone seeking to prepare their communities and to build and invest in climate-related hazard mitigation and resilience measures. Through the connection of maps, apps, data and people, be better equipped to make more informed policy decisions and communicate their impact to your neighbors, elected officials, and resource managers.
What is the curriculum based on?
Using a climate resilience planning process developed by the U.S. federal government and used globally, this curriculum will help you understand climate hazards that could harm the people and places you care about, identify mitigation priorities, and come up with workable solutions to reduce your climate-related risks using GIS.
How can I get started?
Whether you’re interested in learning more about the hazards you and your community are facing or want to start building or updating a climate action plan, learn how you can apply geospatial thinking to climate resilience using the GIS for Climate Resilience curriculum.