Climate change adaptation : DOD can improve infrastructure planning and processes to better account for potential impacts : report to congressional requesters.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Government Accountability Office, issuing body.

Standardized Title:

Climate change adaptation (2014 May)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Department of Defense--Planning--Evaluation.

United States.

United States. Department of Defense.

Military bases--Risk assessment--United States.

Military bases.

Government property--Risk assessment--United States.

Government property.

Infrastructure (Economics)--Risk assessment--United States.

Infrastructure (Economics).

Climatic changes--Risk assessment--United States.

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes--Risk assessment.

Planning--Evaluation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ii, 63 pages) : color illustrations

Other Title:

DOD can improve infrastructure planning and processes to better account for potential impacts

DOD climate change adaptation

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : United States Government Accountability Office, 2014.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

According to DOD, its U.S. infrastructure is vulnerable to the potential impacts of climate change. These could affect DOD's readiness and fiscal exposure, and DOD has begun to plan for adaptation actions designed to improve infrastructure resilience. GAO was asked to assess DOD's actions to adapt its U.S. infrastructure to the challenges of climate change. This report (1) describes potential impacts identified by DOD that may affect its infrastructure; (2) evaluates DOD's efforts to conduct vulnerability assessments; (3) assesses how DOD is accounting for climate change impacts in certain planning efforts; and (4) evaluates the extent to which DOD incorporates adaptation into its infrastructure-investment efforts. GAO reviewed DOD documents on climate change, infrastructure planning, and funding processes; interviewed cognizant officials; and visited or contacted a nongeneralizable sample of 15 sites in various regions and from each military department.

Contents:

Background

DOD has identified climate change phenomena, potential impacts, and potential mission vulnerabilities, and DOD officials have observed them at selected U.S. installations

DOD has begun conducting vulnerability assessments of climate change impacts on installations, but lack of planning may hamper completion of its efforts

DOD requires selected installation planning efforts for existing and future infrastructure to account for climate change impacts, but planners lack key information

DOD processes for approving and funding infrastructure projects do not explicitly account for climate change adaptation

Conclusions.

Notes:

"May 2014."

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (GAO, viewed June 24, 2014).

"GAO-14-446."

OCLC:

882482010