New report summarizes climate considerations on Navajo Nation lands
Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 07:00
in Earth & Climate
A new report led by the University of Colorado Boulder, "Considerations for Climate Change and Variability Adaptation on the Navajo Nation," synthesizes state-of-the-science information on the region's climate, water cycle and ecology. And it goes much further, discussing social, legal, economic, infrastructural and other factors that affect people's vulnerabilities to climate impacts as well as their adaptive capacity, and outlining one approach for how the region's residents might plan for ongoing environmental change.