Using the RAD (resist-accept-direct) Framework for Coastal Climate Adaptation

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About the Webinar

Many natural resource managers face an immediate need to develop climate change adaptation plans but it can be challenging to pivot from existing planning processes. The RAD (Resist, Accept, Direct) Framework is increasingly used by federal, state, and tribal natural resource managers to integrate climate adaptation into management plans. The framework acknowledges that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to adaptation planning. Adaptation actions start with goals for the desired future condition of the managed resource, assessing that goal in terms of climate stresses, and then choosing a path to help the resource resist climate stress, allowing climate stresses to bring about changes to a system (accept), or take actions to help ensure transition to new conditions (direct). This presentation introduces the framework and discusses how it can complement a host of existing tools in a manager's toolbox to address new climate challenges using coastal examples.

 About the Presenter

Abigail (Abby) J. Lynch is a Research Fish Biologist with the USGS National Climate Adaptation Science Center. Abby conducts science and science syntheses on the impacts of global change to inland fishes at local, national, and global scales. Her work aims to inform conservation and sustainable use and to help fishers, managers, and other practitioners adapt to change.

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