Transcript Tuesdays at APA: Results of APA’s Digital Coast Needs Assessment Survey Jim Schwab, AICP American Planning Association.

Tuesdays at APA: Results of APA’s
Digital Coast Needs Assessment Survey
Jim Schwab, AICP
American Planning Association
“Just Tell Us What You Want”
• APA conducted Digital Coast needs
assessment survey on Zoomerang (Nov./Dec.
2010)
• Results to be posted in APA web-based
report this summer
• But you’re special—so you get a
quick preview right here!
Overview
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Who Responded
Geospatial Capability
Big Issues for Planners
What Planners Need
Communication
Who Responded
ROLES (CURRENT OR PAST)
Professional Planner (PUBLIC)
Professional Planner (PRIVATE)
Academic
Planning Commissioner
Land-Use Attorney
Other
Who Responded (cont)
COAST (CURRENT OR PAST)
East Coast (Atlantic)
West Coast (Pacific)
Great Lakes
Gulf of Mexico
Pacific Islands
Arctic
Caribbean Sea
Who Responded (cont)
PUBLIC AGENCY (Current or Past)
Municipality
County
Region/Metropolitan Area
State
Federal
Tribal
Multi-State
Other
Geospatial Capability: Use Proficiency
(% of Respondents)
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Expert
Advanced
Intermediate
Introductory
Not Familiar
Geospatial Capability: Use Proficiency
(Great Lakes Region)
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“EXPERT” RESPONDENTS – 4%
“ADVANCED” RESPONDENTS – 20%
Total: “ADVANCED” or “EXPERT”: 24%
“INTERMEDIATE” RESPONDENTS – 50%
AT LEAST “INTERMEDIATE” – 74%
“INTRODUCTORY” – 24%
“NOT FAMILIAR” – 3%
Geospatial Capability: Use Frequency
(% of Respondents)
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Always
Frequently
Occasionally
Seldom
Never
Don't Know
Geospatial Capability: Use Frequency
(Great Lakes Region)
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“ALWAYS” ORGANIZATIONS – 25%
AT LEAST “FREQUENTLY” ORGANIZATIONS – 75%
AT LEAST “OCCASIONALLY” ORGANIZATIONS – 87%
“SELDOM” – 7%
“NEVER” – 4%
“DON’T KNOW” – 2%
Geospatial Capability: Capacity
% Respondents Agree/Strongly Agree their Organization:
Big Issues for Planners: TOP TEN
Ranked by % Respondents Citing High or Very High Priority
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Land Use Planning/Growth Management (86%)
Conservation (72%)
Economic Development (71%)
Flooding/Inundation/Storm Surge (68%)
Ground Transportation (67%)
Infrastructure/Utilities Development (67%)
Sustainability (63%)
Recreation & Tourism (61%)
Public Access (61%)
Hazard Management (60%)
TOP TEN Issues for Great Lakes Planners:
Ranked by % Respondents Citing High or Very High Priority
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Land Use Planning/Growth Management (90%)
Economic Development (80%)
Conservation (76%)
Recreation & Tourism (71%)
Waterfront and Brownfield Redevelopment (70%)
Public Access (70%)
Sustainability (69%)
Ground Transportation (68%)
Infrastructure/Utilities Development (66%)
Energy/Alternative Energy Development (56%)
Regional TOP TEN Issues
Ranked by % Respondents Citing High or Very High Priority
• Climate Change Impacts - Arctic (75%); Caribbean (67%)
• Coastal Storms - Gulf of Mexico (73%); Atlantic Southeast (72%); Caribbean
(66%); Arctic (55%)
• Cultural and Heritage Resource Management - Pacific Islands (76%); MidAtlantic (71%); West Coast (66%)
• Energy/Alternative Energy Development - Great Lakes (56%)
• Habitat Systems Restoration and Monitoring - Pacific Islands (65%); West
Coast (62%)
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Marine Transportation - Arctic (65%)
Protected Species Management - Caribbean (67%)
Sea Level Rise/Lake Level Change – Pacific Islands (65%)
Shoreline Change Management - Pacific Islands (69%)
Waterfront and Brownfield Redevelopment - Great Lakes (70%); Atlantic
Northeast (69%)
What Planners Need: Data
Top Five in each Category Ranked by % Respondents
What Planners Need: Tools
Top Five Ranked by % Respondents Citing High or Very High Importance
1.Impervious Surface Analysis Tool (69%)
2. Coastal County Snapshots (62%)
3. Hazards U.S. Multi-Hazard (HAZUS-MH) (55%)
4. Nonpoint-Source Pollution & Erosion
Comparison Tool (55%)
5. Landscape Fragmentation Tool (54%)
What Great Lakes Planners Need: Tools
Top Five Ranked by % Respondents Citing High or Very High Importance
1. Impervious Surface Analysis Tool (71%)
2. Nonpoint-Source Pollution & Erosion
Comparison Tool (62%)
3. Landscape Fragmentation Tool (58%)
4. C-CAP Land Cover Atlas (57%)
5. Coastal County Snapshots (53%)
Communicating with Users: Easy or
Difficult?
(Great Lakes Regional Highlights)
• “VERY OR SOMEWHAT EASY” – 14%
• HIGHEST – Pacific Islands (41%)
• LOWEST – Atlantic Northeast (14%)
• “VERY OR SOMEWHAT DIFFICULT – 31%
• HIGHEST – Caribbean (40%)
• LOWEST – Pacific Islands (14%)
Communication: Challenges
% Respondents Citing Primary Challenges Communicating
with Decision-Makers about Planning
Do not have challenges communicating with
decision-makers
Other
Planning department is not involved in the issue
Scientific or technical complexity of the issue
Low political priority/lack of concern
Fear of intruding on property rights
Lack of immediacy or urgency connected with the
issue
Competition between diverse community interests
and values
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Communication: Useful Media
% Respondents Citing Useful Media when Communicating
with Decision-Makers about Planning
Not Applicable
Other
Social media (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn,…
Government TV
Videos
Time-series data in graphic format
Local news media (newspapers, radio, TV, etc.)
Visualization tools (CanVis, Coastal Flood…
Memos and reports
E-mail
Mapping tools (electronic)
Slide shows (e.g. Power Point)
Maps (printed)
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APA Contact Information
• Jim Schwab, AICP; Manager, APA Hazards
Planning Research Center
• [email protected]
• 312-786-6364
• Chicago office: 205 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 1200
Chicago IL 60601
• Web: www.planning.org
NOAA Great Lakes Climate Needs Assessment
Tuesdays at APA
July 19, 2011 Chicago, IL
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Heather Elmer
Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve - Ohio DNR Wildlife
NERRS
(pronounced NEERS)
National Programs of the Reserve System
System-wide Monitoring Program
Identify and track short-term variability and long-term changes in the
integrity and biodiversity of estuarine ecosystems.
Competitive Research Programs
Graduate Research Fellowship program
NERRS Science Collaborative
Coastal Training Program
Better informed decision-making to improve coastal
stewardship
K-12 Estuarine Education Program (KEEP)
Enhance people’s ability and willingness to make informed
decisions and take responsible actions that affect coastal
communities and ecosystems
Why assess needs?
“Information should be tailored to user needs,
provided at space and timescales to support
decision-making, communicated clearly, and
accompanied by decision support tools that
allow exploration of alternative pathways1.”
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National Research Council, 2010.
America’s Climate Choices – Informing an Effective Response to Climate Change
Needs Synthesis
• Cross-cutting needs
– Communication, Coordination, and
Collaboration
– Data Integration and Information
Distribution
• Climate planning may be taking place
across departments in a municipality or
county but fragmented, e.g.
stormwater planning, emergency
management
• Final report
– http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/te
chrept.html
Data Collection
• Interviews: 15
• Focus groups: 2
• Regions represented:
– States: NY, OH, MI, MN, WI, IL, Tribal
– Lake Basins: Erie, Ontario, Huron, Superior, Michigan
Preliminary Results
• Awareness and understanding of potential climate
change impacts is variable
• Cross-cutting issues and concerns
– Uncertainty of impacts, how to plan, deciding which
projects to fund
– Coordination across departments, i.e., emergency
response capacity
– Political agendas as possible barrier to implementing
needed changes
– Economic impacts on variety of sectors including tourism,
fisheries, recreational boating, shipping
“What's hard is that people are going to
ask the inevitable question what am I
planning for? More rain? Less rain?
More snow? less snow?“
– Stormwater manager
“The beaches, the quality of the beaches
are important for our citizens but also for
visitors – tourism. If you don’t have quality
beaches that has a negative impact in
terms of people’s perception.”
- City Planner
“People have their missions and they’re
just following it down without
realizing that they can get more of
their missions accomplished by
helping other people to accomplish
their missions, if we are all working
together – whether it’s federal, state,
or local level.” – County Agency
Director
Online Survey
• 22 questions to assess
– Awareness, knowledge, skills
– Planning efforts
– Needs for training, information and tools
– Perceived barriers and benefits
– Preferred training formats
• Disseminated through NERRS, Great Lakes Coastal Program,
and Sea Grant stakeholder networks and listserves
• 784 respondents, 644 in Great Lakes watershed
• Your Climate Planning
– Barriers - Funding, staff time, lack of political and
public support, uncertainty about impacts, rate
and amount, and management options
– Benefits - Improved quality of life for future
generations, improved environmental quality, a
more secure water supply, conserving habitat for
wildlife, reducing human health and safety risks,
and protecting public infrastructure
Your Climate Planning Needs
• What information do you need?
– Planning Financial assistance and incentives, planning
examples and lessons learned, potential impacts locally,
economic costs and benefits, assessment of community
vulnerability
– Impacts Economy, ecosystems, land use, nonpoint source
pollution, public health, shorelines, recreation, and
stormwater infrastructure
• How do you want to access information?
– One day intermediate workshops, fact sheets, websites,
short introductory presentations
Climate Workshops
Building planning capacity for Great Lakes coastal communities
– Cleveland, OH August 10
• Contact Heather Elmer
– [email protected]
– (419) 433-4601
– Duluth, MN September 13
– Green Bay, WI September 22
• Contact Patrick Robinson
– [email protected]
– (920) 465-2175
http://nerrs.noaa.gov/CTPIndex.aspx?ID=663
• Who Should Attend?
– Planners and other professionals - land use,
public health, stormwater, emergency
preparedness, and natural resource management
• Workshop includes
– Climate change impacts in the Great Lakes region
– Planning processes and strategies
– Tools, data, and resources
– Regional examples of climate planning
– Stakeholder engagement strategies
Building Bridges with
Climate Change Workshops
Participatory
Processes
The Best Available
Climate Science and
Natural Science
Information
Economic Research
and Socio-economic
Considerations
Vulnerability Assessment and
Adaptation Planning Training
Builds a Bridge
to……
Improved Climate Readiness
Questions?
Heather Elmer
[email protected]
419.433.4601
Old Woman Creek
National Estuarine Research Reserve
Patrick Robinson –
[email protected]
920-465-2175
Lake Superior
National Estuarine Research Reserve
Tools for Great Lakes Planners in
NOAA’s Digital Coast
Heather Stirratt
NOAA Coastal Services Center
Climate Change Adaptation
U.S. Global Change Research Program Report 2009: http://downloads.globalchange.gov/usimpacts/pdfs/midwest.pdf
Let’s Take a Look Around
Elevation Data on Digital Coast
• Enables direct
download of coastal
elevation data
• Delivers custom
elevation products
to the user
Great Lakes Bathymetric Lidar
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Great Lakes Restoration
Initiative
• Collected 900 linear kilometers of bathymetric lidar on Lake
Superior
• Filling data gaps based on the basin-wide elevation inventory
• Required extensive stakeholder input on priorities
Great
Lakes
Land
Use
Source: Gertens Landscaping (MN)
The Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP)
• National coastal land cover and
change mapping program
• Inventory of intertidal areas,
wetlands, and adjacent uplands,
produced or updated every five years
• Consistent, accurate products
through standard data and methods
• Coastal expression of the National
Land Cover Database (NLCD)
Designed to help improve
understanding of linkages between
land change and the environment
Kennebunkport, ME
C-CAP Coastal Land Atlas
www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/tools/lca/
Coastal County
Snapshots:
Now Available
Digital Coast – Training
Digital Coast In Action
Success Stories—We Love Them
Buffalo River Project
Analysis results highlighted
in blue show priority areas
for wetlands restoration or
creation
For More Information
Visit www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/
or
Contact Heather Stirratt
(952) 368-2505
[email protected]
CanVis: Visualization Software
for Coastal Communities
CanVis Software
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
www.unl.edu/nac/simulation/
Software Options
Factors
2D or
3D
Cost
Expertise
Required
Time
Required
CanVis
(level demonstrated)
2D
Free
None
Low
Adobe, Paintshop Pro,
GIMP
2D
Low to
medium
Medium
Low to
medium
Community Viz, Sketch
Up, Visual Nature
Studio, Maya
2D or 3D
Low to
very high
High to very
high
High
ArcGIS (ArcScene)
requires spatial analyst
2D or 3D
High to
very high
High to very
high
High
Source: CanVis Visual Simulation Guide
The Base Image
CanVis Software Interface
Menu
Icons
Toolbars
Dropdown
menu or tab
Base image
Object
CanVis in Action
Original object photograph
Extracted object
Image with extracted object
Background image
Benefits of Visualization
• Provides a “window into
the future”
• Presents alternative futures
side-by-side and poses
what-if questions
• Flexibility
• Easy to engage with
stakeholders
• Stakeholders can recognize
their community easier
Environmental Science and Policy, Vol. 8, 2005, S.R.J. Sheppard,
“Visualizing Climate Change: Theoretical Frameworks,” pages 637 to 654.
Simulation
Visualization:
Can It Really Change
Behaviors?
• Different imagery stimulates
different responses
• 3-D visualizations led to more
cognitive responses but no
actual change
• Photo-realistic visualizations
led to more behavioral change
responses
• Would this apply to other
coastal issues and topics?
Environmental Science and Policy, Vol. 8, 2005, S.R.J. Sheppard,
“Visualizing Climate Change: Theoretical Frameworks,” pages 637 to 654.
Number of Comments and References to Information
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
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Simulations
Elder
Adult
Young Adult
Maps
The Impact of Imagery
• Resource management issues
presented to community
•increased dialogue was obtained
when using visualizations
•Seen across multiple demographics
• Very powerful when both methods
are combined
Graph: John Lewis, CALP, UBC. Courtesy of Cheam Band, BC.
Past Projects and Visualizations
Using CanVis
Simulation
Simulation
Simulation
Imagery - Sean Hoelscher and City of North Myrtle Beach Planning and Development Department
Simulation
Imagery - Sean Hoelscher and City of North Myrtle Beach Planning and Development Department
Simulation
Imagery - Sean Hoelscher and City of North Myrtle Beach Planning and Development Department
Image courtesy live.maps.com
Image courtesy live.maps.com
Simulation
Simulation
Simulation
www.csc.noaa.gov/canvis
Coastal Objects
http://www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/tools/canvis/download.html
Contact Information
and Resources
Chris Haynes
[email protected]
(843)740-1336
CanVis Website
www.csc.noaa.gov/canvis
Monthly Virtual Workshop
1:00 – 4:00 PM Eastern
3rd Wednesday of every month
Now worth 3.0 CM credits
for the American Planning Association!