Adaptation Pathways 1.0: A Guide for Navigating Sea-Level Rise in the Built Environment
This report summarizes a May 2016 Sea-Level Rise Summit organized by the Florida Center for Environmental Studies at Florida Atlantic University. The goal of the Summit was to produce a first generation roadmap for adaptation, by translating knowledge and ideas into action. The resulting "Adaptation Pathways" - found in Section III of this report - synthesize the Summit’s dominant themes into sea-level rise resilience strategies.
Six sectors, here labelled as “Problem Domains,” have matching Adaptation Pathways as follows:
1: Community Engagement → Listening & Partnering
2: Public Health, Science & Metrics → Novel Measuring & Monitoring
3: Financial Policies & Building Regulations → Aligning Incentives
4: Hard Infrastructure → Supporting Public-Private Partnerships
5: Soft Infrastructure → Green Landscaping
6: Relocation → Multi-Level Coordinating
Each of the Pathways are described by outlining related adaptation and resiliency strategies. For example Problem Domain 3: Financial Policies & Building Regulations provides an overview and next-steps or strategies for the adaptation pathway of Aligning Incentives in these areas:
- Tools for Funding & Incentivizing: SLR IRAs, Resiliency Bonds & Modified Lending Structures
- Building Code Updates
- Insurance & Risk Management Reform
- Adaptive Planning & Zoning Tools
Publication Date: August 25, 2016
Related Organizations:
- Florida Atlantic University (FAU)
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