Bay Localize’s Resilience Job Opportunities Worksheets
Instructions: Identify the risks, impacts, needs, and jobs created that are most relevant to your community.
Sea Level Rise and Floods: Melting polar ice significantly raise sea levels; shifting rain patterns cause floods.
Risk factors
Your community is next to the ocean or a bay, or on a floodplain.
Your home or workplace is a next to the ocean or a bay, or on a floodplain.
You are invested in property next to the ocean or a bay, or on a floodplain.
Local Impacts
Buildings prone to sea level rise or
floods lose their value. Families and
businesses may need to move, and
lose homes and investments.
Adaptation Needs
Change public zoning laws to not allow
new development in low coastal zones
or near rivers or creeks at risk from sea
level rise or flooding.
Jobs Created
- Urban planners
- Map makers
Potential Clients
Local or state
government
Raise insurance rates for coast-side or
floodplain property to reflect risk of loss.
- Insurance adjustors
Insurance industry
Establish a mechanism to aid relocation
of low and middle-income families
losing primary residence.
- Urban planners
- Real estate financiers
Local or state
government, real
estate lenders
Re-purpose existing buildings or build
new ones in safer locations, especially
affordable housing.
- Green architects
- Construction trades
- Real estate agents
Families, businesses,
housing agencies
Restore wetlands and watersheds to
protect infrastructure naturally and
provide wildlife habitat.
- Hydrologists
- Wetland restoration
- Foresters
- Wildlife biologists
- Civil engineers
- Construction trades
Local or state
government
Construct sea walls or levies to protect
infrastructure, or move infrastructure to
a safer location.
- Urban planners
- Civil engineers
- Construction trades
Local or state
government
Flooding of buildings and public
infrastructure such as roads, railway,
and airports impact local economy.
Excerpted from Bay Localize’s Community Resilience Toolkit, Second Edition forthcoming in 2012
Contact Kirsten Schwind, kirsten@baylocalize.org, 510-834-0420
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Bay Localize’s Resilience Job Opportunities Worksheets
Instructions: Identify the risks, impacts, needs, and jobs created that are most relevant to your community.
Heat Waves: Changing weather patterns create unprecedented high temperatures in your community.
Risk factors:
Your home or workplace gets very hot or cold.
You have health conditions such as asthma, heart disease, or are very old or young.
You have difficulty traveling to a cooler location due to limited mobility.
Your job requires working outside, and you have little control over your work conditions.
Local Impacts
Residents suffer from heat waves,
especially those with asthma due to
worsened air quality.
Adaptation Needs
Make cities cooler by planting trees to
shade buildings, sidewalks, and streets.
Design and equip buildings with energy
efficient cooling methods as needed.
Examples of Jobs
- Tree nurseries
- Tree planting crews
- Energy efficiency and
green building services
Potential Clients
Families,
neighborhood
groups, local
government
Designate accessible buildings as
cooling centers open to all during hot
hours. Equip with temperature control,
air filtration, food, and transportation.
- Air conditioning and
filtration installers
- Mobile food providers
- Transportation services
Public health
agencies and local
government
Enforce special air quality controls and
fund free public transportation on hot
days with poor air quality.
- Air quality specialists
- Transit workers
Pubic health and
transit agencies
People in poor health and with limited
mobility can die in dangerously hot
temperatures, and may not be able to
travel to a cooling center.
Identify at-risk households. Install
energy efficient temperature control,
and a system to check in on residents
during heat waves.
- Public health outreach
- Energy efficiency and
green building experts
- Concerned neighbors
Families, public
health and senior
agencies,
neighborhood groups
People working outside (e.g. farm
workers, construction, road crews)
may be required to continue working
under unsafe heat conditions.
Work with unions, industry, and OSHA
to adjust labor regulations to strengthen
safeguards for at-risk workers. Increase
enforcement.
- Union representatives
- Occupational safety
experts
- Labor lawyers
Unions, industry,
OSHA, labor
relations agencies
Excerpted from Bay Localize’s Community Resilience Toolkit, Second Edition forthcoming in 2012
Contact Kirsten Schwind, kirsten@baylocalize.org, 510-834-0420
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Bay Localize’s Resilience Job Opportunities Worksheets
Instructions: Identify the risks, impacts, needs, and jobs created that are most relevant to your community.
Drought: Unprecedented droughts can raise your water rates and food bills, and impact farm economies.
Risk factors:
You live in a dry climate.
Your community relies on water supplies (wells, creeks, springs) that could run dry.
Your community purchases public water supplies from a source that could raise rates.
Your household has trouble paying water bills or affording healthy food.
Your job or local economy relies on agriculture.
Local Impacts
Local and regional droughts reduce
or endanger public supplies and
ecosystems. Increased water rates
can cause economic hardship.
Adaptation Needs
Reduce water use and install water
efficiency and recycling measures.
Diversify water supplies.
Examples of Jobs
- Hydrologists/Biologists
- Water efficiency
services, plumbers
- Low-water landscapers
Potential Clients
Households and
businesses, water
districts, local
government
.
Change pricing so those who use more
water pay higher rates. Guarantee
minimum supply for low-income users.
- Water efficiency
services, plumbers
- Water agency staff
Water districts,
households and
businesses
Local droughts produce conflict
between households or communities
that use the same water sources.
Create local /regional water user
councils to develop fair usage
agreements that also maintain local
ecosystems.
- Hydrologists/Biologists
- Mediation services
- Water efficiency
services, plumbers
Local government
and water districts,
local residents,
community groups
Local droughts cause economic
hardship for farmers, farm workers,
and regional agricultural economies.
Install water efficiency measures in
agriculture. Diversify rural economies.
Ensure “disaster zone” economic relief
reaches farm worker families.
- Water efficiency
services in irrigation
- Rural development
- Bilingual disaster relief
Farms and ranches,
rural development
agencies, community
services groups
Drought in any major food-growing
region of the world can cause crop
failure that raises food prices here.
Increase local food security, especially
for low-income households.
- Community food
security specialists
Local government,
public health
agencies, food banks
Excerpted from Bay Localize’s Community Resilience Toolkit, Second Edition forthcoming in 2012
Contact Kirsten Schwind, kirsten@baylocalize.org, 510-834-0420
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Bay Localize’s Resilience Job Opportunities Worksheets
Instructions: Identify the risks, impacts, needs, and jobs created that are most relevant to your community.
Economic Impacts: Rising price of oil drives up the cost of transport, food, and other goods through inflation.
Risk factors:
Your income is low, especially in a region with a high cost of living.
You live on a fixed income, without much financial cushion (eg seniors).
You rely on driving long distances to work.
You work in a luxury industry that uses a lot of oil (eg airlines, tourism, boat/plane sales).
Potential Impacts
Rising oil prices
Resulting Local Needs
Affordable, fast, and effective public
transportation.
Examples of Jobs
- Transit operators
- Bus/train manufacture
- Transit infrastructure
construction (rail, BRT)
Potential Clients
Regional transit
agencies
Other alternatives to driving: rideshares,
walking, biking, commuter shuttles.
- Bike shops, bike repair
- Rideshare organizing
- Construction of
sidewalks, bike paths
- Shuttle services
General public, local
government,
employers, schools
Housing near transit, easy commute.
- Construction
- Green architects
Developers, housing
organizations
Rising food prices
Resilient local food systems that can
feed everyone in community.
Guaranteed access to land and water to
produce local public food supplies.
- Community food
security specialists
- Garden supply retail
- Farm managers
- Irrigation and greywater
system installers
- Local food processing
and distribution
General public, public
health agencies,
schools, institutions,
food banks
Recession, unemployment
Job re-training, adult ed, and new
business support services
- Job training
- Small business support
Schools, community
colleges, SBA
Excerpted from Bay Localize’s Community Resilience Toolkit, Second Edition forthcoming in 2012
Contact Kirsten Schwind, kirsten@baylocalize.org, 510-834-0420
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Bay Localize’s Resilience Job Opportunities Worksheets
Instructions: Identify the risks, impacts, needs, and jobs created that are most relevant to your community.
Your Community Resilience Plan Worksheet (use as many copies as needed)
What are the most
important adaptation
needs you identified
for your community?
What vulnerable
populations especially
need these services?
(low-income, etc.)
Who would take
charge of meeting
these needs? (city
agencies, etc.)
Where would they get
the money they need
to do this?*
What additional jobs
could this create in
your community?
*This is literally the million dollar question – and it’s time to start thinking about it. Who ultimately foots the bill for climate and energy
adaptation in your community? Who do you think should? How would you get them to do so?
Excerpted from Bay Localize’s Community Resilience Toolkit, Second Edition forthcoming in 2012
Contact Kirsten Schwind, kirsten@baylocalize.org, 510-834-0420
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