Focus Area: Community Resilience

Alaska communities are vulnerable to climate extremes

Rural communities throughout the state, many of which are accessible only by air or water, are among the most vulnerable to climate extremes. People and communities face threats to salmon, community infrastructure and traditional knowledge from extreme events such as flooding, high winds, erosion, wildfire and more extreme weather.

ACCAP supports community resilience and preparedness by empowering individuals and communities to proactively address and respond to immanent risk.

ACCAP’s work on community resilience

1. ACCAP’s work on community resilience currently focuses on the:
   intersections of climate adaptation, workforce development and community economic development; and
2. boundary spanning and knowledge co-production with Alaska communities.

ACCAP’s community resilience work is built upon the experience, expertise and relationships that we have cultivated over 15 years operating in Alaska. We center this work within local perspective, and prioritizes Alaska values, priorities and methodologies.

ACCAP acknowledges that Alaska communities face a multitude of simultaneous challenges [as visualized in these graphics] in addition to climate impacts and necessary response. Our research in community resilience acknowledges these complex and interconnected elements of people's reality, aiming for use-inspired research that offers integrated solutions that are grounded in the community perspectives and priorities.

Learn more about our approach to research.

Photo: In villages along the Kuskokwim, salmon and subsistence is a way of life. (Credit: USFWS-Alaska)