Community indicators
NOAA RISA produced a report “A Synthesis of Adaptation Planning Needs in Alaska Native Communities” which documents and proposes mitigation strategies for “barriers to climate adaptation planning in tribal communities [including] inadequate funding, limited capacity and resources, lack of usable climate data, and ineffective agency response and leadership at the local, state and federal levels.”
NOAA Fisheries developed social indicators to characterize community well-being for coastal communities engaged in fishing activities. Climate Change Indicators include the assessment of ecosystems, whose conditions are increasingly driven by climate change and its impacts on the marine environment. These impacts affect the relationship between fishing communities and the marine- and land-based resources on which they depend.