This 2020 report - generated in response to an Extension Foundation RFP - documents data about climate/extreme programming across the Cooperative Extension System (CES). Programs included align with Project Drawdown, other frameworks, and generally accepted conservation practices.
Attributions | 2 |
Table of Contents | 3 |
Executive Summary | 5 |
Introduction | 7 |
Background | 7 |
Climate Change & Extreme Weather in the U.S. Context | 7 |
A Push for Climate & Extreme Weather Programming in Extension | 8 |
Project Drawdown | 11 |
Project Overview | 13 |
Research Objectives | 13 |
Plan of Work | 13 |
Methods | 14 |
Quantitative Program Inventory | 15 |
Qualitative Interviews with ‘Early Adopters’ | 15 |
Quantitative Results: Program Inventory | 17 |
Qualitative Results: Interview Themes & Insights | 22 |
Extension Roles & Leadership Styles | 23 |
Program Strategy & Structure | 25 |
Products, Tools, Target Outcomes & Impacts | 29 |
External Constraints | 32 |
CES Institutional Challenges | 36 |
Opportunities Moving Forward | 40 |
Conclusions and Recommendations | 48 |
Successes | 48 |
Challenges | 49 |
Opportunities | 50 |
Acknowledgements | 52 |
References | 53 |
Appendix A: National Inventory of Extension Climate & Extreme Weather Programs | 54 |
Appendix B: C/EW Program Partners & Funders Identified through Qualitative Interviews | 55 |
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