Casco Bay Climate Change Vulnerability Report

The Casco Bay region is vulnerable to all seven of the climate stressors identified by the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA): warmer summers; warmer winters; warmer waters; increased drought; increased storminess (evident in higher total precipitation, frequency and intensity); sea level rise; and ocean acidification (US EPA 2014). These climate stressors do not operate in isolation. Compounding their impacts are factors such as population growth, habitat fragmentation and destruction, and resource depletion that can further tax ecosystems and species

Casco Bay Climate Change Vulnerability Summary Report

The Casco Bay region is vulnerable to seven important climate stressors highlighted by the US Environmental Protection Agency: warmer summers; warmer winters; warmer waters; increased drought; increased storminess (evident in higher total precipitation, frequency and intensity); sea level rise; and ocean acidification (US EPA 2014). These climate stressors do not operate in isolation. Compounding their impacts are factors such as population growth, habitat fragmentation and destruction, and resource depletion that can further tax ecosystems and species

Casco Bay’s Vulnerability to Climate Change (Fact Sheet)

From day to day, the weather is always changing—sometimes cooler, sometimes warmer, sometimes wetter, sometimes drier. However, long-term data on conditions over the past century reveal clear trends in Casco Bay’s climate, and these trends are expected to continue far into the future. With climate change increasingly affecting the Casco Bay ecosystem and people who live and work around the Bay, Casco Bay Estuary Partnership (CBEP) carried out a vulnerability assessment to identify the most important climate-related risks. The assessment also determined the most effective ways for CBEP and local communities to respond to the changes in order to ensure the long-term health and vitality of the Bay

The light of a safe village

"This project is the the result of over 18 months of rigorous in field and partnership-based research including the commissioning of first-of-it’s-kind research by the “behavioral architects™” of Final Mile on the compulsions of male decision making on both the demand and supply side of the trafficking of girls and women. This Comic booklet is the “leave behind” portion of a Training Toolkit designed to educate all stake holders in rural areas to effectively prevent the trafficking of girls and women for sexual exploitation.