Climate change: Department of Defense infrastructure adaptation efforts
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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Novinka [2014]
Schriftenreihe:Climate change and its causes, effects, and prediction series
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Beschreibung:Includes index
CLIMATE CHANGE: DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INFRASTRUCTURE ADAPTATION EFFORTS; CLIMATE CHANGE: DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INFRASTRUCTURE ADAPTATION EFFORTS; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Chapter 1: CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: DOD CAN IMPROVE INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING AND PROCESSES TO BETTER ACCOUNT FOR POTENTIAL IMPACTS; WHY GAO DID THIS STUDY; WHAT GAO RECOMMENDS; WHAT GAO FOUND; ABBREVIATIONS; BACKGROUND
Dod has identified climate change phenomena,potential impacts, and potential missionvulnerabilities, and dod officials haveobserved them at selected u.s. installationsdod has begun conducting vulnerabilityassessments of climate change impacts on itsinstallations, but lack of planning may hampercompletion of its efforts; dod requires selected installation planningefforts for existing and future infrastructureto account for climate change impacts, butplanners lack key information
DOD PROCESSES FOR APPROVING AND FUNDINGINFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS DO NOT EXPLICITLYACCOUNT FOR CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATIONCONCLUSION; RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EXECUTIVE ACTION; AGENCY COMMENTS AND OUR EVALUATION; APPENDIX I: SCOPE AND METHODOLOGY; APPENDIX II: PREVIOUS GAOWORK ON FEDERALEFFORTS TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE HAS RESULTEDIN A NUMBER OF RECOMMENDATIONS FORIMPROVEMENT OF THESE EFFORTS; Chapter 2: DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FISCAL YEAR 2012 CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION ROADMAP; 1. POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLANNING
2. AGENCY VULNERABILITY: ANALYSIS OF CLIMATE CHANGE RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES3. PROCESS FOR DOD ADAPTATION PLANNING AND EVALUATION; 4. ACTIONS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND CLIMATE CHANGE RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES; 5. ACTIONS TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES; Blank Page; INDEX
In its Fiscal Year 2012 Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap, the Department of Defense (DOD) identified climate change phenomena such as rising temperatures and sea levels as potentially impacting its infrastructure, and officials at sites GAO visited or contacted noted actual impacts they had observed. This book describes potential impacts identified by DOD that may affect its infrastructure; evaluates DOD's efforts to conduct vulnerability assessments; assesses how DOD is accounting for climate change impacts in certain planning efforts; and evaluates the extent to which DOD incorporates adapt
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