Watershed Visualizations of Climate Change UW Climate Impact Group Seminar Presentation Grant R. Jones, FASLA Jones & Jones Architects and Landscape Architects Christopher L. Overdorf, ASLA Jones & Jones Architects and Landscape Architects Jennifer L. Knauer, ASLA Jones & Jones Architects and Landscape Architects January 10, 2008
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Watershed Visualizations of Climate Change UW Climate Impact Group Seminar Presentation Grant R. Jones, FASLA Jones & Jones Architects and Landscape Architects.
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Watershed Visualizations of Climate Change
UW Climate Impact GroupSeminar Presentation
Grant R. Jones, FASLAJones & Jones Architects and Landscape Architects
Christopher L. Overdorf, ASLAJones & Jones Architects and Landscape Architects
Jennifer L. Knauer, ASLAJones & Jones Architects and Landscape Architects
January 10, 2008
•Absence of communication and visualization tools
•The format of climate change results are limiting
•Regional adaptation initiatives need to know where the vulnerable landscapes are
•So why visualize climate change?
A landscape is an interconnected system
The concept of healthy landscape armatures as a guide for design is not new
•Climate change may affect landscape form and function•GIS can assist this characterization of change over time•A regional assessment of climate change effects & opportunities
•Puget Sound Partnership’s Action Agenda•A Puget Sound HUC framework prototype – let’s do it together