addressing climate change adaptation in regional transportation plans

Additional Resources• Sea Level Rise• x In San Diego, the Public Agency Steering Committee, working with ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability and The San Diego Foundation,developed the “Sea Level Rise Adaptation Strategy for San Diego Bay.”Source: http://www.cakex.org/sites/default/files/documents/San_Diego_Bay_SLR_Adaptation_Strategy_Complete.pdf. This should serve as a keyreference for communities in the region.• Wildfire• x California Fire Science Consortium, Central & South Coast Module:http://www.cafiresci.org/home-central-and-southern-ca/• x SoCal Society of American Foresters: http://norcalsaf.org/• x Southern California Association of Foresters & Fire Wardens: http://scaffw.org/SCAFFW_home.htm• x California Fire Alliance: http://cafirealliance.org/California FireSafe Council: http://www.firesafecouncil.org/• Public Health, Socioeconomic, and Equity Impacts• x The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services’ Office of HealthAssessment and Epidemiology has produced an excellent resource:Premature Deaths from Heart Disease and Stroke in Los Angeles County:A Cities and Communities Health Report (www.lapublichealth.org/epi/docs/CHR_CVH.pdf). Notably, this report provides information on heartdisease and stroke, as well as economic hardship, by city or community(spatializing the data to inform built environmental planning decisions).(Public Health Law and Policy, How to Create a Healthy General Plan,2008)• x Los Angeles and San Diego counties are two of a few places in Californiawith real-time surveillance data for communicable diseases and outbreaks.(CDPH, 2008)PAGE 92APG: UNDERSTANDING REGIONAL CHARACTERISTICS