The Climate Resilience Workbook Series

The Climate Resilience Workbook series helps users to access and apply global climate information at a local scale to develop relevant resilience actions. The series begins with an introduction to climate data analysis through The Climate Toolbox Workbook. The Climate Toolbox Workbook is a user’s guide to the Climate Toolbox, providing a road map for users to analyze climate information and communicate climate data stories, data-driven narratives about climate impacts and trends relevant at the community level. Then, The Vulnerability Assessment Workbook provides a framework to integrate those data analyses with judgement and choices. And finally, The Resilience Actions Workbook provides tools to help understand the human landscape of a community and plan resilience actions that integrate the outputs from the first two workbooks.


Questions around climate information and climate change are far-reaching and can be overwhelming. The Climate Resilience Workbook series seeks to help users develop skills in manageable chunks; learn how to analyze, integrate, and use information from a range of sources; and develop plans that are actionable at a local scale. We hope that by investigating discrete issues, the holistic picture becomes clearer.

The Climate Toolbox Workbook

The Climate Toolbox Workbook (formerly The Northwest Climate Toolbox Workbook) provides step-by-step instructions for using the Climate Toolbox. The Toolbox and the workbook are meant to aid and empower you to discover and craft what we are calling climate data stories, narratives outlining the climate impacts and trends relevant to your community. This is the first volume in The Climate Resilience Workbook series.

PDF icon nwct.pdf (3.71 MB)

The Vulnerability Assessment Workbook 

The Vulnerability Assessment Workbook provides step-by-step instructions for assessing current and projected future climate impacts faced by your community. Use this workbook to build on the climate data analysis and climate data stories you previously created using the Climate Toolbox and The Climate Toolbox Workbook. This is the second volume in the The Climate Resilience Workbook series.

PDF icon vulnerability_assessment_workbook.pdf (1.5 MB)

The Resilience Actions Workbook 
 

The Resilience Actions Workbook provides tools to help you understand the human landscape of your community and to plan resilience actions that integrate the best available scientific research and tools with your local experience and judgement. Finally, this workbook provides guidance on how to communicate effectively about the process, decisions, and findings. This is the third volume in The Climate Resilience Workbook series.

PDF icon resilience_actions_workbook.pdf (1.27 MB)

 

The Climate Toolbox

CIRC's Climate Toolbox (formerly The Northwest Climate Toolbox) provides timely climate and weather information to Pacific Northwest farmers, businesses, and resource managers. Filled with tools that map and visualize climate and weather conditions, the Toolbox helps its users better manage their financial and natural resources by giving them the information they need to respond to and plan for weather and climate impacts.