Advancing community-centered, justice-focused climate adaptation

The Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative assists Tribes and frontline communities in improving their resilience to climate change while addressing the legacy of systemic inequity that continues to influence their lives and livelihoods.

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Community-Centered Resilience-Building

Photo credits, from left: University of Washington; Carol Reiss, USGS: Coast Salish Canoe Journey 2009 landing in Pillar Point; Front & Centered

The Collaborative is split into four main portfolios of work: Tribal Coastal Resilience; Rural Resilience; Scaling Resilience and Evaluation. The Tribal Coastal Resilience Portfolio and the Rural Resilience Portfolio focus on key types of communities facing disproportionate impacts of climate change in the Northwest. Projects in these portfolios integrate research in the natural and social sciences to understand community needs, priorities, values and opportunities for accelerating adaptation, and engage in the community to support actions to increase climate resilience.

The Scaling Resilience Portfolio includes activities designed to accelerate climate adaptation in the Northwest and beyond. The Evaluation Portfolio studies relationships, processes and outcomes of each portfolio to enable adaptive management of projects and advance the science of evaluation and participatory research on resilience.

Programs and News

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Recent News

The Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative has launched a Request for Collaborators in Idaho. Applications are due November 1, 2024 at midnight (12 am PT). Learn more and apply here.

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Contact Us

resiliencecollab@uw.edu

Partner Organizations

A NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnerships Team

The Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative is funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Adaptation Partnership (CAP) program (formerly the NOAA Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) Program), under grant: NA21OAR4310311. The Resilience Collaborative is one of 11 active CAP/RISA teams across the country.

The University of Washington

The Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative is housed at the Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington. Several University organizations, including UW EarthLab and the UW College of the Environment, provide financial and administrative support to the Resilience Collaborative.