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ADAPTATION MONITORING, ASSESSMENT, AND PLANNING:
A PERSPECTIVE FROM ONTARIO
Scott MacRitchie, P.Geo. Toronto, Ontario
Adaptation in the Great Lakes Conference Ann Arbor, Michigan June 24 – 26, 2014
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OUTLINE
• Monitoring: Integrated climate and water quantity and quality monitoring for climate change detection and adaptation.
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OUTLINE
• Monitoring: Integrated climate and water quantity and quality monitoring for climate change detection and adaptation.
• Assessment: Vulnerability assessment at a watershed scale.
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OUTLINE
• Monitoring: Integrated climate and water quantity and quality monitoring for climate change detection and adaptation.
• Assessment: Vulnerability assessment at a watershed scale.
• Planning: Adaptation planning at a watershed scale.
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BACKGROUND
• Conservation Authority: Watershed based management agency.
• CCME: Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment.
• COA: Canada-Ontario Agreement. • Lake Simcoe: Ontario’s largest inland
lake
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MONITORING
COA Project: Review of monitoring networks for climate change.
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MONITORING
COA Project: Review of monitoring networks for climate change.
DETECTION
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MONITORING
COA Project: Review of monitoring networks for climate change.
DETECTION
ADAPTATION
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MONITORING
COA Project: Review of monitoring networks for climate change.
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PARKHILL CREEK
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PARKHILL CREEK INTEGRATED MONITORING STATION
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PARKHILL CREEK INTEGRATED MONITORING STATION
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PARKHILL CREEK INTEGRATED MONITORING STATION
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INTEGRATED MONITORING DATA TRANSMISSION
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PARKHILL DATA EXAMPLE: JULY 2012 TO JUNE 2014
GROUNDWATER
STREAM
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CCME MONITORING GUIDANCE
Prioritization within study area: Sensitivity, Ecosystem Service Valuation,
Ombrothermic (Climate Moisture Index [Precip - Potential ET])
http://www.ccme.ca/publications/list_publications.html#link8
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CCME MONITORING GUIDANCE
Network evaluation within prioritized areas:
Audit (workshop), Network Degradation, Multivariate
Prioritization within study area: Sensitivity, Ecosystem Service Valuation, Ombrothermic (Climate Moisture Index –
Precip - Potential ET)
http://www.ccme.ca/publications/list_publications.html#link8
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MONITORING: NEXT STEPS
• Subwatershed modelling 2015 – 2016 – Integrated surface-groundwater model – Nitrate discharge – Land use – Baseline water budget – Repeat every 10 years
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VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT
Vulnerability = Exposure + Sensitivity! " " "Adaptive Capacity!
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IMPACT ASSESSMENT: LAKE SIMCOE
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LAKE SIMCOE AND 18 SUBWATERSHEDS
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• 23 municipalities • Drinking water source for 6 communities
• 15 sewage treatment plants
• 12% is urbanized, which is increasing rapidly • City of Barrie was the fastest growing area in Canada
from 2001-2006 (20%)
• Large increase in urban land cover (85 km2 in 1991 to 285 km2 in 2001)
• 47% of catchment is agricultural • e.g., Holland Marsh
LAKE SIMCOE BASICS
From Eleanor Stainsby, 2014. Science and Monitoring: Lake Simcoe and its Watershed. Presentation to Denlow Public School, April 11, 2014.
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EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT
• Simple Water Balance used to assess exposure.
• P = ET + Surplus + ΔStorage
• Potential ET > Actual ET
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WATER BALANCE 1971 – 2000 MONTHLY P AND T FOR SAND SOIL
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WATER BALANCE 2071 – 2100 MONTHLY P AND T FOR SAND SOIL
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Comparison of water balance results from 10 2100 climate models and 1971 – 2000 climate
normals
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SENSITIVITY ASSESSMENT
Water Quantity and Quality Indicators:
Water Availability Baseflow Index Wetland Cover
Groundwater Vulnerability Forest Cover
Phosphorus Loading Variability of Streamflow
Floodplain Area Sewage Bypass
http://www.climateontario.ca/p_ls.php
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CCME VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT GUIDANCE
http://www.ccme.ca/publications/list_publications.html#link8
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CCME VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT GUIDANCE
Tools for Assessing Exposure: • Lumped Models • Semi-distributed models • Fully-distributed models • Indicators Tools for Assessing Sensitivity: • Watersheds • Human Communities • Freshwater Ecosystems Tools for Assessing Adaptive Capacity: • Human Communities • Resilience of Freshwater Ecosystems
http://www.ccme.ca/publications/list_publications.html#link8
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ASSESSMENT: SUGGESTED NEXT STEPS
Determinants 1: • economic resources; • technology; • infrastructure; • information, skills, and management; • institutions and networks; and • equity Capital:
(i) Human (ii) Social (iii) Physical (iv) Financial (v) Natural
Determinants 2: (i) Actor assets (ii) Community
resources (iii) Institutions
Assessment of Adaptive Capacity • Difficult but essential
• Need for more experience
Relate adaptive capacity to sensitivity indicators
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ASSESSMENT: SUGGESTED NEXT STEPS
Figure : Top-down and bottom-up approaches to climate change adaptation. Source Dessai and Hulme (3)
Climate adaptation
policy
Top-down approach
Vulnerability (social) ↑
Adaptive Capacity ↑
Indicators based on: Technology
Economic resources Information and skills
Infrastructure Equity
Institutions
Bottom-up approach Past Present Future
Global
Local
World development ↓
Global greenhouse gases ↓
Global climate models ↓
Regionalization ↓
Impacts ↓
Vulnerability (physical)
Dessai, S., and M. Hulme. 2004. Does climate adaptation policy need probabilities? Climate Policy. 4(2): 107-128.
Top-down
Bottom-up
Combination
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CCME GUIDANCE: IMPLEMENTATION FRAMEWORK FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
ADAPTATION PLANNING AT A WATERSHED SCALE (2014, IN PRESS)
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PLANNING FRAMEWORK PRINCIPLES
http://www.ccme.ca/publications/list_publications.html#link8
• Water quantity and quality • Different watershed scales • Top-down and bottom-up • Developing assessment indicators • Adaptive management • Effectiveness monitoring • Mainstreaming • Uncertainty
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CONCLUSIONS • Integration: monitoring-modeling-management,
science-policy. • 4 C’s: Collaboration, Coordination, Cooperation,
Communication: disciplines, jurisdictions, public (stakeholders).
• Uncertainty is not going away: how to manage and build infrastructure in a non-stationary future.
• Assessing Adaptive Capacity. • Adaptation measures: No-low regrets, hard/soft, costs/
benefits, implementation issues (water governance), mainstreaming.
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PRINCIPLES FOR ADAPTATION
Five Principles for Climate Change Adaptation Law
Principle #1: Monitor and Study Everything All the Time Principle #2: Eliminate or Reduce Non–Climate Change Stresses
and Otherwise Promote Resilience Principle #3: Plan for the Long Term with Much Increased
Coordination Across Media, Sectors, Interests, and Governments
Principle #4: Promote Principled Flexibility in Regulatory Goals and Natural Resource Management
Principle #5: Accept — Really Accept — That Climate Change Adaptation Will Often Be Painful
Robin Kundis Craig, 2010. STATIONARITY IS DEAD”— LONG LIVE TRANSFORMATION: FIVE PRINCIPLES FOR CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION LAW, Harvard Environmental Law Review, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 9 – 75, 2010