Adaptation Design Tool: Corals & Climate Adaptation Planning
The Adaptation Design Tool of the Corals & Climate Adaptation Planning project has been developed to help coral reef managers incorporate climate-smart design into their plans, programs, and projects at any stage of planning and implementation. It can be used to incorporate climate change adaptation into programs using existing planned actions as a starting point, and also to consider development of additional climate-smart strategies as needed. The Design Tool provides a systematic approach to help managers: (1) integrate climate-smart design considerations into their existing management actions; and (2) build out an expanded set of actions based on options found under general adaptation strategies from the literature. Use of the Design Tool also yields valuable supplementary information on data gaps and research needs, and on potential interactions among actions (synergies, sequencing issues) that are relevant for evaluating logical groupings of actions for implementation. Finally, the Design Tool can be applied in greater depth once priority actions have been selected, in order to develop designs to the level of specificity needed for actual implementation.