Alameda Creek Atlas

N. Claire Napawan (University of California Davis, Department of Human Ecology)

Current efforts at understanding social vulnerability to climate change within the region often do not include opportunities for the full public to inform the list of indicators selected, and they can quickly become outdated. We need adaptive models of information sharing, a better merger of social and ecological conceptualizations of climate changes, and, most importantly, we need to employ humanistic approaches to allow climate change to be known. The Alameda Creek Atlas is a participatory tool that community members can use to access their resources and decision makers can use to understand more diverse conceptualizations of vulnerability and resilience in the region.