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Program 3. Climate and Environmental Stewardship
Goals
Key Actions
Indicators/Measures of Success
Increase knowledge of the current and potential impacts of climate change/ variability.
Advance sustainable management practices that satisfy stakeholders’ needs while also preserving environmental quality.
• Assess impacts of climate variability and sea level rise on regional industries and communities.
• Investigate regional water management strategies to protect, re-establish, or mitigate climate extremes and sea
level rise.
• Engage in climate change discussion with decision makers and policy makers in Florida.
• Investigate novel cropping systems and landscape management to mitigate and adapt climate variability effects (includes saltwater intrusion).
• Support and advocate strategies
and action plans related to disaster
risk reduction and climate change adaptation of south Florida’s agriculture.
• Facilitate key stakeholders and decision- makers to have access to information to assess, forecast, and monitor disaster and climate induced risks.
• Strengthen the capacity, awareness, and resilience of stakeholders in high risk, vulnerable locations to respond to natural disasters and climate change effects.
• Promote various landscape approaches for more sustainable resource use (e.g., combining agriculture, water, forestry, and biodiversity).
• Level of adoption of novel cropping systems and landscape management to mitigate/adapt climate variability effects (includes saltwater intrusion).
• Improved climate-related knowledge and information systems and outreach programs for key stakeholders and decision makers.
• Guidelines developed for communities to cope with environmental issues adapted to different ecological/ location contexts.
• Enhanced stakeholders’ capacities through training and extension support.
• Implementation of projects on community-based adaption and mitigation activities.
• Geographic identification of locations with agricultural activities classified as high risk and vulnerable to climate change effects (e.g., floods, salt-water intrusion).
• Number of farmers trained in improved land and water management techniques.
• Increased outreach programs
and methods of communication
of results of scientific research
on climate change to foster community stewardship and a more informed public.
• Increased adoption of environmentally sustainable landscape management practices in urban areas.
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