Climate Change Adaptation: Planning for BC
This 2008 report summarizes key principles of smart adaptation, explores the climate challenge in the context of nine top-of-mind issues, and proposes a set of over-arching recommendations that would help to facilitate the development of smart adaptation in BC.
Adaptation to the stresses induced by climate change builds resilience, and there is also now an opportunity to effect the transition from a traditional resource-based economy to an ecosystem-based economy that recognizes and values environmental goods and services, and diversifies the economic base at a time when the traditional base is being challenged. BC's Climate Action Secretariat should include in its mandate the means to study this transition as well as ways to incorporate these values into decision-making across the board.
