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Climate change scenarios, New Brunswick municipalities / : Final report

28 Apr 2010

Daigle Enviro, the Fredericton Area Watersheds Association., and the Environment & Sustainable Development Research Centre at the University of New Brunswick, I am pleased to submit the following report to the Environmental Trust Fund for ETF Project No. [...] Following a bottom up approach, the Project Team utilized stakeholder input to produce the “Guideline for Climate Change Adaptation in New Brunswick “(Guideline) as part of the City of Fredericton’s Climate Change Adaptation Strategy (ETF Project No. [...] The following report and appendices present the results of this project The information contained in this report will assist New Brunswick municipalities in “identifying adaptation solutions and use local knowledge to develop and integrate solutions to climate change impacts that provide value to New Brunswick communities.”(From Section 5.5 of the New Brunswick Climate Change Action Plan 2007-2012 [...] In the context of sea level parameters we adopted the mid-point of the three future periods (2025, 2055 and 2085) as the representative year for each scenario period. [...] The choice of best representative climate station was based on length and quality of historical data, best representation of local climate and proximity to the municipality.
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Authors

Dalton, Shawn, Riley, Michael D, Daigle, Réal, Richards, William

Pages
69
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario

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