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How to Improve Your "Climate-Smart IQ" Using the Adaptation Design Tool

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This article is for the Coast Guard Proceedings magazine issue on "maritime subsurface issues". We wrote an article about why, how, and when to use the Adaptation Design Tool. The audience will be broad and non-technical, so the article is written in a non-technical style.

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This article will increase the profile of the Adaptation Design Tool and bring climate-smart design to a wider audience. People reading this article will be outside the audience reached so far about the Adaptation Design Tool.

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Gibbs, D., J. West, AND B. Parker. How to Improve Your "Climate-Smart IQ" Using the Adaptation Design Tool. Proceedings of the Coast Guard Journal of Safety and Security at Sea (ed.), Proceedings of the Marine Safety & Security Council: The Coast Guard Journal of Safety & Security at Sea. U.S. Coast Guard, WASHINGTON, DC, 75(1):45-49, (2018).

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  • http://www.dco.uscg.mil/Portals/9/DCO%20Documents/Proceedings%20Magazine/Archive/2018/Vol75_No1_Spring2018.pdf?ver=2018-03-08-164356-243
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