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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