Report: Extension Climate & Extreme Weather Programming

Report: Extension Climate & Extreme Weather Programming

Extension Climate & Extreme Weather Programming: Successes, Challenges & Opportunities

Photo credit: Roslynn McCann, Zion National Park

Faculty Extension Climate Fellows: Jennison Kipp, University of Florida Sarah Klain, Utah State University

Paul Lachapelle, Montana State University Roslynn McCann, Utah State University

Student Extension Climate Fellows: Maria Dozier, University of Florida Dakoeta Pinto, Utah State University

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Extension Climate and Extreme Weather Programming: Successes, Challenges & Opportunities

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Publish Date: 11/17/2020

Citations for this publication may be made using the following: Kipp, J., Klain, S., Lachapelle, P., McCann, R., Dozier, M., and Pinto, D. (2020). Extension Climate and Extreme Weather Programming: Successes, Challenges & Opportunities. Kansas City: Extension Foundation.

Producer: Ashley Griffin

Technical Implementer: Ashley Griffin and Rose Hayden-Smith

Welcome to the Extension Climate and Extreme Weather Programming: Successes, Challenges & Opportunities. This is a resource created for the Cooperative Extension Service and published by the Extension Foundation . We welcome feedback and suggested resources for this publication, which could be included in any subsequent versions. This work is supported by New Technologies for Agriculture Extension grant no. 2020-41595-30123 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Attributions ............................................................................................................................................................... 1

Table of Contents ..................................................................................................................................................... 2

Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................................ 4

Introduction .............................................................................................................................................................. 6

Background ............................................................................................................................................................................... 6

Climate Change & Extreme Weather in the U.S. Context.........................................................................................6

A Push for Climate & Extreme Weather Programming in Extension .................................................................7

Project Drawdown............................................................................................................................................................... 10

Project Overview................................................................................................................................................... 12

Research Objectives ............................................................................................................................................................ 12

Plan of Work .......................................................................................................................................................................... 12

Methods ................................................................................................................................................................................... 13

Quantitative Program Inventory ................................................................................................................................... 14

Qualitative Interviews with ‘Early Adopters’ ............................................................................................................ 14

Quantitative Results: Program Inventory.................................................................................................... 16

Qualitative Results: Interview Themes & Insights .................................................................................... 21

Extension Roles & Leadership Styles ............................................................................................................................ 22

Program Strategy & Structure ....................................................................................................................................... 24

Products, Tools, Target Outcomes & Impacts ........................................................................................................... 28

External Constraints........................................................................................................................................................... 31

CES Institutional Challenges ........................................................................................................................................... 35

Opportunities Moving Forward...................................................................................................................................... 39

Conclusions and Recommendations............................................................................................................... 47

Successes ................................................................................................................................................................................. 47

Challenges............................................................................................................................................................................... 48

Opportunities......................................................................................................................................................................... 49

Acknowledgements .............................................................................................................................................. 51

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References ............................................................................................................................................................... 52

Appendix A: National Inventory of Extension Climate & Extreme Weather Programs............... 53

Appendix B: C/EW Program Partners & Funders Identified through Qualitative Interviews .. 54

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Executive Summary

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recommends rapid implementation of climate adaptation and mitigation programs to reduce the chance of increasingly catastrophic climate change impacts (IPCC, 2018). One outlet for this type of programming is through the United States Cooperative Extension System, which translates scientific information into applied research and educational outreach. Our team conducted a national inventory of Extension programs to better understand the extent to which climate and extreme

weather programs are currently being delivered and to characterize the nature of these programs. Our >Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55

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