Case Study
Urban Resilience to Climate Change: Washington, D.C.
Urban Resilience to Climate Change: Case Study of Washington, D.C. - Cadmus CadmusKnowledgeUrban Resilience to Climate Change: Case Study of Washington, D.C. How Cadmus supported EPA on groundbreaking work assessing climate change resilience in our nation’s capital The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Global Change Impacts and Adaptation program, the Office of Research and Development (ORD) Global Change Research Program, evaluates the vulnerability of EPA’s air, water, ecosystem, and human health protection efforts to climate change and other global change stressors at the federal to municipal levels. The program also researches and develops adaptation options to build resilience to these stressors. Challenge: EPA called on Cadmus to assess Washington, D.C.’s (the District’