Watershed-Scale Climate Adaptation Collaboration Toolkit

Author: K. Haas; M. Ocana; Z. Murphy

Last Reviewed by MLTC: 02/05/2026. 

A watershed-scale climate adaptation toolkit that combines an online overview with a detailed guidance document explaining why watersheds are effective planning units, how watershed-scale climate collaboratives operate, and how partners can coordinate and implement climate adaptation actions across municipal and organizational boundaries, with examples from Massachusetts.

Documents:

  1. Watershed-Scale Climate Collaboration Toolkit
    Website providing an overview of watershed-scale climate collaboratives, including rationale, structure, examples, and links to supporting tools and resources.
    Resource: https://www.massecan.org/wscc-toolkit
  2. Advancing Climate Adaptation through Watershed-Scale Collaboration (K. Haas; M. Ocana; Z. Murphy; 2021)
    Toolkit document describing the watershed-scale approach to climate adaptation, the role of collaboration, and examples of watershed-scale climate collaboratives.
    Resource: toolkit overview