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Task
Force Identified 3 Programs to Support SCCCI Goal
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The East-Central Florida Climate Change Task Force (TF), a group of regional stake-holders responsible for ensuring the goals and objectives of the SCCCI are effectively pursued, last met in March 2009. The following is a summary of their recomendations.
The goal of the SCCCI remains “to convince local governments to implement plans, policies, and/or programs to address global climate change.”
Recognizing the initial focus is on rising sea level, the TF identified three major programs that could be undertaken in support of this mission:
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Land acquisition — consistent with managed withdrawal and perhaps including: |
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Developed coastal segments: acquisition of properties having major structures that are vulnerable to erosion damage, demolition of vulnerable structures, and conversion of underlying land to oceanfront parks/public beach access. |
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Undeveloped coastal segments: conservation easements, environmental land acquisition programs, and habitat restoration. |
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Regional sand management
— designed to ensure best use of non-renewable and limited “beach compatible sand” reserves along open coastlines and at tidal inlets.
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Comprehensive
planning — revise
existing language to include consideration of climate change
and sea-level rise within each Comprehensive Plan Element
(i.e., conservation, surface water protection, recreation
and open space, future land use, and etc.) |
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These
three programs are best promoted by: |
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Events
— both public and targeted audiences with a focus on education and outreach. |
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Website
— maintain a site that acts as a portal to existing information. |
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Professional White Papers— objective position papers (i.e., coastal management, storm water management, insurance, septic/infrastructure) related to the three themes, seeped in science and including recommendations or actions which individuals can undertake to advance each. |
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The East-Central Florida Climate Change Task Force was established to facilitate success of the Space Coast Climate Change Initiative. Its members are as follows: |
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Virginia Barker |
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Brevard
County Natural Resources Management Office |
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Sue Carlson |
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Former
Brevard County Commissioner |
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Fielding Cooley, Ph.D. |
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Executive Director, Marine Discovery Center |
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Duane DeFreese , Ph.D. |
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Aquafiber Technologies Corporation |
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Terry Gibson |
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North Swell Media, LLC |
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Ken Lindeman, Ph.D. |
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Coastal
Science and Policy, Inc. |
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Nancy Higgs |
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Former
Brevard County Commissioner |
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Rita Karpie |
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Mayor
of Town of Melbourne Beach |
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Randall W. Parkinson, Ph.D., P.G. |
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RWParkinson
Consulting, Inc. |
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Winifred G. Perkins |
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Manager, FP&L Enviromantal Services |
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Mitchell A. Roffer, Ph.D. |
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Roffer's
Ocean Fishing Forecasting Service, Inc. |
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D. Scott Taylor, Ph.D |
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Brevard
County Environmentally Endangered Lands Program |
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Harold Wanless, Ph.D. |
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Department
of Geology, University of Miami |
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The Task Force is currently
directed by Dr. Randall Parkinson. |
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