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196 assessment of climate change in the southwest united statesvviviiOf the 162 survey responses, which represented 14 coastal counties and 45 coastal municipalities,only 10% had not begun looking at climate change impacts at all, 40% were in the early stage ofunderstanding the potential impacts of climate change and their local vulnerabilities, 41% hadentered the more advanced stage of planning for those impacts, and another 9% were implementingone or more identified adaptation options. More detailed survey results have shown thatcommunities are still early in their respective processes, but a clear increase in engagement hasbeen confirmed by several other studies (Hanak and Moreno 2011; Moser 2009; Tang 2009; Cruce2009).See the extensive literature review in Ekstrom, Moser, and Torn (2011) and Moser and Ekstrom(2010).Based on reportings from the ports; see http://www.portoflosangeles.org/maritime/growth.asp; http://logisticscareers.lbcc.edu/portoflb.htm; http://www.portofoakland.com/maritime/facts_comm_02.asp.Chapter 10