Building Resilience Today

The Looking Forward, Looking Back: Building Resilience Today workshop series was hosted in the spring of 2019 through the spring of 2020. The goal of the trainings was to provide Alaska Tribal communities who are experiencing climate change with the information, support, and climate science to plan and adapt for uncertain futures.

The workshop was hosted by AK CASC and the Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association. Five Tribes participated in two trainings and held local workshops that aimed to help these partnering communities craft sections of a climate adaptation plan.

Training Goals

1. Increase knowledge about the earth’s climate system from Indigenous Knowledge and western climate science, including past experiences and observations, impacts, and projections of change.
2. Increase awareness of tools, resources, and approaches for climate adaptation planning and decision-making.
3. Facilitate cross-community learning about how other communities, Tribes, and organizations are responding to and planning for climate-related impacts.
4. Document traditional areas of interest, key subsistence species, and environmental changes that are important to each community.
5. Develop a synthesis document for each community that summarizes Indigenous knowledge species and significant traditional/sustainable practices that Tribes want to perpetuate.

Reports

The BRT training reports provide an overview of the objectives, design, and content of two trainings held during the BRT project. Community reports summarize climate information and local knowledge for each participating community.