Department of Water Resources
1416 Ninth Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
Mailing Address:
P. O. Box 942836
Sacramento, CA 94236
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Developed cooperatively by DWR, The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Resources Legacy Fund, and The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Climate Change Handbook for Regional Water Planning provides a framework for considering climate change in water management planning. Key decision considerations, resources, tools, and decision options are presented that will guide resource managers and planners as they develop means of adapting their programs to a changing climate.
The handbook uses DWR's Integrated Regional Water Management (IRWM) planning framework as a model into which analysis of climate change impacts and planning for adaptation and mitigation can be integrated.
The Handbook includes:
- The science of climate change, tools and links;
- Evaluating the energy-water connection and greenhouse gas emissions;
- Assessing regional vulnerability to climate change;
- Measuring regional impacts;
- Evaluating projects, resource management strategies, and Integrated Regional Water Management Plans with respect to climate change;
- Implementing and quantifying uncertainty; and
- Case studies illustrating a range of climate change adaptation and mitigation issues within and outside of California.
Current Perspectives
Principal Consultant to the California Assembly Select Committee on Regional Approaches
to Addressing the State's Water Crisis, Alf Brandt, talks about how the Climate Change Handbook
for Regional Water Planning will help push California toward more action on climate change
adaptation. Read his blog post on DWR's Current Perspectives Blog. |
Click here
to download the "Vulnerability Assessment Checklist", quickly and easily identify how climate change could impact aspects of water resources
in your region.
A very limited number of printed handbooks are available for
those who are unable to download and print the handbook. Please contact: IMR Publications
or call DWR Publications Office at (916) 653-1097.
For additional information about the handbook please contact:
Andrew Schwarz (DWR) or
Suzanne Marr (USEPA)
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