The NOAA Coastal Services Center, as part of their Digital Coast program, has assembled a Coastal Inundation Toolkit.
The new "Visualize" section allows users to learn how different types of visualizations can help communities understand their inundation risks and vulnerabilities. The "Picture It" page offers tools and local examples of how photos, maps,, »read moreTags: adaptation & mitigation, climate change, hazard identification, Mapping, planning, sea level rise
As an El Niño winter tears away its shoreline, San Francisco tries to figure out how or whether to protect homes, a $220 million wastewater treatment plant, and a world-famous road.
The question facing at least eight local, state and federal agencies boils down to this: With California officials expecting climate change to raise sea levels here by 14, »read moreTags: climate change, infrastructure, planning
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Need to quickly check to see which flood zone a property is in? Have Google Earth installed on your computer (it's free, though you may need administrative rights to install it on your computer)? FEMA has a page explaining how to get those pesky FIRMs into your mapping system. Read about it here:
Using the National Flood Hazard Layer Web Map Service (WMS), »read moreTags: hazard identification, Mapping, planning
Related to yesterday's post, FEMA is now offering an updated 12 hour on-line training for hazard mitigation planning.
The goals of IS-318, Mitigation Planning for Local and Tribal Communities (also referred to as Hazard Mitigation Planning) are:
Assist participants in undertaking the hazard mitigation plan development process. This plan will meet the, »read moreTags: planning, training & outreach
The Center for Planning Excellence (CPEX) and the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) recently released the Best Practices Manual for Development in Coastal Louisiana website.
What's novel about this site is that it provides strategies for creating sustainable and resilient coastal communities based on "geotypes" (pick from chenier, »read moreTags: adaptation & mitigation, infrastructure, planning, publications
The American Planning Association has released a short interview with Ed Thomas and Alessandra Jerolleman (both from the Natural Hazard Mitigation Association) on the best way for communities to recover quickly and safely from a major storm, flood, etc. Their work is the foundation of our (largely in development) After the Storm section.
You can listen to, »read more
“Hazard mitigation is very important and there’s a lot of value in looking at past events, but we know with climate change that we can’t use the past to project what the future will be like. For example, the flood that a community used to experience every 100 years may now be the 20-year flood.”
Nice Coastal Services Magazine article on Lewes,, »read moreTags: adaptation & mitigation, case study, climate change, planning, sea level rise, weather & climate
The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission has voted unanimously to pass a development plan for land within 100 feet of the bay's coastline. The plan—which requires that decisions about land use in the area consider factors including the latest climate science and the importance of wetland restoration—gives the agency a tool to deny, »read moreTags: case study, climate change, hazard identification, planning, regulations, sea level rise
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