Today, NOAA’s Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management has released “Protecting the Public Interest through the National Coastal Zone Management Program: How Coastal States and Territories Use No-Build Areas along Ocean and Great Lake Shorefronts.”
From NOAA:
In the face of continued population growth and increasing economic activity along, »read moreTags: publications, regulations
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
NOAA's National Hurricane Center Storm Surge Unit has put together a new brochure explaining the what storm surge is and how to best measure it.
There's nothing here on how to prevent losses, but the before/after shots (on page 3) should motivate some people to think about how we need to plan for it.
Added to our Sources for Outreach Materials page., »read more
We at StormSmart are big fans of the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium's Coastal Community Resilience Index. For those not familiar with it, the Coastal Community Resilience Index (CRI) is a simple tool that provides a snapshot of a community’s resilience, and can help identify opportunities to improve.
Designed to take as little as two hours to, »read moreTags: hazard identification, publications, training & outreach
Finding information on sea level rise that isn't so vague as to be useless or too technical to understand can be tricky. Gary Mitchum (University of South Florida) has taken a stab at doing so in Sea Level Changes in the Southeastern United States—Past, Present, and Future. You can download a PDF of the report (which was a joint project with the Florida, »read moreTags: climate change, publications, sea level rise, weather & climate
Not sure how to get started on a climate change adaptation plan? Have a look at what the San Francisco Bay area has drafted with their new "Climate Change Hits Home" report.
The plan includes:
Anticipated regional impacts
Vulnerable areas and adaptation strategies (includes public safety and health, transportation, ecosystems and biodiversity, energy,, »read moreTags: adaptation & mitigation, climate change, publications, sea level rise
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When we first assembled the conceptual framework for StormSmart Coasts back in 2006, we made a deliberate decision to not focus on ecological and habitat issues. This wasn't because we didn't think these topics were important—clearly they were and are—but because we wanted to really zero in on hazards without getting entangled on all the complexities, »read moreTags: climate change, publications, sea level rise, weather & climate
We all know that the best way to keep buildings out of flood waters is to keep them out of areas that flood. The reality for most communities, though, is that homes and other structures are already in areas that flood. What to do then?
There are many options, of course. You could somehow acquire and then relocate the structure to a safer area, but, »read moreTags: adaptation & mitigation, Building, funding & assistance, Insurance, publications, sea level rise
Tying in with their Climate Ready Water Utilities program, the EPA has released four case studies looking at specific adaptation steps communities are taking. The communities are East Bay (CA), New York City, Seattle (WA), and Spartanburg (SC). You can download the case study from EPA's, »read moreTags: adaptation & mitigation, case study, infrastructure, planning, publications
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