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Item Metropolitan Council Climate Vulnerability Assessment: Narrative Report(2017) Ferguson, Vincent; Gannett, Sadie; Hitch, Emilie; Strain, SarahThrive MSP 2040 prescribes policy goals for the Metropolitan Council. Namely, the document lists Sustainability as one of five desired outcomes that comprise a shared regional vision and identifies “Building in Resilience” as one of seven core land use policies. To address these two items and align with Thrive, the Metropolitan Council must respond to the effects of climate change in its planning and operational activities, identify and address potential vulnerabilities in regional infrastructure, and provide related information and assistance to local communities. To fulfill these tasks, the Metropolitan Council is conducting a vulnerability assessment of assets as they relate to extreme heat events and surface flooding, which can be due to a combination of low elevations and topography as well as extreme rainfall events (intense or prolonged rainfall). As part of this larger vulnerability assessment, the Metropolitan Council asked a team of graduate students from the Humphrey School of Public Affairs to consider human vulnerability. For this report, the team has identified specific human vulnerability indicators as they relate to extreme heat, surface flooding, and the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area context and geography.Item Workforce Development Strategies for Brooklyn Park, MN: Group 2 Report - Connecting Communities to Opportunity(Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2016) Ferguson, Vincent; Fonseca-Sarmiento, Camila; Sun, YuThis project was completed as part of the 2016-2017 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with the City of Brooklyn Park. Unemployment rates in Brooklyn Park are higher than those for the state of Minnesota. Although suburban cities generally do not focus on workforce development, instead relying on county or state agencies to fill this role, Brooklyn Park is interested in supporting local workforce development efforts. The goal of this project was to determine effective workforce development strategies that address cultural competency in the workplace, prepare new immigrants and other underrepresented groups for employment, and examine transit-oriented development workforce development strategies in other suburban communities. Brooklyn Park project lead Erik Hansen worked with students in PA 5512: Economic and Workforce Development, to create a set of recommendations around local workforce development strategies. The students' final report is available.