Conservation professionals face unprecedented challenges arising from changes in land
use, invasive species, biodiversity, climate, and more. These changes interact in complex …

Scenario planning is a tool that embraces uncertainty rather than trying to reduce or
eliminate it. It can help resource managers generate creative approaches to climate change …

Conservation decisions about how, when, and where to act are typically based on our
expectations for the future. When the world is highly unpredictable and we are working from …

Scenario planning helps managers incorporate climate change into their natural resource
decision making through a structured “what-if” process of identifying key uncertainties and …

Scenario planning is a flexible tool used to assess a broad range of plausible, relevant,
divergent, and challenging futures, for short-term responses and long-term planning …

Managing resources under climate change is a high-stakes and daunting task, especially
because climate change and associated complex biophysical responses engender …

NPS established its Climate Change Response Program (CCRP) in 2009 to support climate-
informed management for all resources, 1 assets, and values across the US national park …

Management of natural resources and infrastructure systems for sustainability is complicated
by uncertainties in the human and natural environment. Moreover, decisions are further …

The use of scenario planning in urban and regional planning practice has grown in the last
decade as one way to face uncertainty. However, in adapting scenario planning from its …

Scenario planning has been increasingly advocated as a strategic planning tool for enabling
natural resource managers to make decisions in the face of uncertainty and rapid change …