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Maryland Cultural Resources Hazard Mitigation Planning Program
2016
Maryland Historical Trust's (MHT) Cultural Resources Hazard Mitigation Planning Program was a two-year program created to help local governments plan, prepare for, and protect against climate impacts such as flooding, wind, and coastal erosion that affect historic places and properties, archeological sites, and cultural landscapes across the state of Maryland. Under this program, MHT developed trainings, model guidance and educational materials to help local governments create hazard mitigation plans for their cultural resources.
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Long-Term Drought Resilience Federal Action Plan of the National Drought Resilience Partnership
March 2016
President Obama established the National Drought Resilience Partnership (NDRP) in November 2013 as part of his Climate Action Plan. On March 21, 2016, Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum on Building National Capabilities for Long-Term Drought Resilience, directing the NDRP to work collaboratively to deliver on a Federal Action Plan designed to complement state, regional, tribal and local drought preparedness, planning and implementation efforts. This Action Plan lays out a series of activities to fulfill the President’s drought resilience goals, which are intended to be undertaken in 2016 or 2017.
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Avoiding and Minimizing Risk of Flood Damage to State Assets: A Guide for Delaware State Agencies
March 2016
Prepared by Delaware’s Flood Avoidance Workgroup, this report outlines a set of principles and instructions for ensuring that existing and future flood risks are considered during site selection and project design, as required by Executive Order 41.
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NOAA Regional Coastal Resilience Grants
March 2016
As of March 2016, NOAA’s National Ocean Service is providing up to $9 million in competitive grant awards through the Regional Coastal Resilience Grants program. These grants are being used to fund projects that are helping coastal communities prepare for and recover from extreme weather events, climate hazards, and changing ocean conditions. Awards were made for project proposals that advance resilience strategies, often through land and ocean use planning, disaster preparedness projects, environmental restoration, hazard mitigation planning, or other regional, state, or community planning efforts.
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C40 Good Practice Guide: Climate Change Adaptation in Delta Cities
March 1, 2016
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group has developed a series of eleven Good Practice Guides for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and climate vulnerabilities. Climate Change Adaptation in Delta Cities provides a review of successful approaches drawn from the experiences of cities engaged in C40’s Connecting Delta Cities Network, which are relevant for coastal river delta cities around the world. The good practices shared in the report range from strategies to complete case studies from cities such as Jakarta, Copenhagen, London and New York.
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Equity Foundations: USDN Capacity Building Program
2016
In September 2015, the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN), in partnership with the Government Alliance on Race and Equity and the Center for Social Inclusion, launched a professional development program for sustainability directors and their staff for advancing racial equity into sustainability planning and development. The program became available online and includes a holistic curriculum of five webinars, videos and worksheets to support local government staff in applying an equity lens to sustainability projects.
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Maryland Coast Smart Community Scorecard
The Coast Smart Community Scorecard is a self-assessment tool for coastal communities in Maryland that offers a practical method to assess preparedness for coastal hazards and climate change impacts. The Scorecard provides a mechanism for planners, natural resource managers, emergency management professionals and other local officials to identify ways that they can integrate coastal hazard impacts into existing planning, management, and regulatory programs.
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U.S. DHS Casco Bay Region Climate Change Resiliency Assessment
March 2016
As a part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)’s Regional Resiliency Assessment Program (RRAP) - this research focuses on the local and regional impacts of climate change in the Casco Bay area, the most developed and populous region in Maine. The report focuses primarily on vulnerabilities that may affect the region’s ability to maintain its critical infrastructure systems, and provides corresponding Resilience Enhancement Options that DHS and other partners may utilize in climate adaptation planning.
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Safeguarding California: Public Health Sector Implementation Action Plan
March 2016
Safeguarding California: Implementation Action Plans is a series of progress reports, by sector, describing how the state government is responding to the recommendations from California’s climate adaptation plan - 2014 Safeguarding California: Reducing Climate Risk, and implementing the adaptation strategies.
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Delaware Wastewater and Surface Water Matching Planning Grant
February 22, 2016
The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control's Division of Watershed Stewardship and Environmental Finance are now accepting project proposals from state, county and municipal governments and governmental subdivisions for matching grants for wastewater and surface water project planning. Grants are revolving and proposals are due approximately the last week of February, May, August, and November.
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