Regional Planning Fingerprint - Coastal California

Human actions are accelerating the pace of climate change placing significant stress on ecosystems (Stein et al., 2013). Institutions charged with protecting those systems and human livelihoods are also under increasing pressure to address future threats (Folke et al., 2004; Ostrom, 2009). City and county governments across the United States are developing plans to address these threats (Bierbaum et al., 2013; Woodruff & Stults, 2016). However there is currently no strategic approach to evaluate this work (Gupta et al., 2010). This data is the application of a flexible multi-criterion framework called the "Regional Planning Fingerprint." This assessment tool is used for evaluating the current status and potential future success of a region’s ability to proactively address long-term threats such as sea level rise.