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“Scientists and stakeholders need to work together to understand the risks that are relevant for each city so that they can find effective ways to prepare for climate change,” they advise. “In order to develop specific, localized climate action plans, stakeholders and scientists need to work together to learn about climate risks, brainstorm strategies and prioritize implementation.”
Four counties and 26 cities in southeast Florida launched an innovative regional planning venture in 2009, the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact. This organization has developed a climate change action plan for its members, and works to promote smart responses to impacts such as sea level rise and flooding.
Planning scholars Karen Vella and William Butler say the compact is innovative and has effectively promoted the need to adapt to climate change: “The compact works through existing planning and policy processes by seeking to amend comprehensive land-use plans, stormwater master plans, zoning ordinances, building codes and transportation standards. Implementation is dependent on county and municipal decision processes, budgets, local approaches to public involvement, enforcement, monitoring and review, and politics.”
However, they note, initiatives like this will have limited impact as long as members are not bound to take action. Adapting to climate change will require hard decision about directing development away from flood-prone areas and paying for infrastructure upgrades. Nonetheless, adapting Florida’s planning model would be a good way for other regions to start grappling with climate change.
In times of crisis, many areas lose electricity. To help fix this problem, more and more attention being pointed towards solar generators because they don’t require fuel like conventional diesel generators. Solar power generators are extremely helpful in disaster situations because you won’t have to worry about finding fuel and with solar, you won’t have to wait. Solar technology is easy to move which is ideal for aiding disaster relief. Short-term relief isn’t the only benefit, solar technology can also help to make disasters less disastrous in the long run. Solar power systems make the power grid more resilient.
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