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The Definitive Guide to Disaster Planning
2019
This emergency preparedness guide is for business owners of large or small operations to create and implement a business continuity plan. A business continuity plan should establish a comprehensive disaster plan that ensures that the business can survive a variety of interruptions, recover from a weather event, reduce liability concerns, protect revenue sources, build a culture of preparedness, and more. The guide presents a 12-step process that business owners should undertake if they want their business to survive a disaster, including extreme weather events induced by climate change.
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Northeast Florida Regional Resilience Exposure Tool
The Regional Resilience Exposure Tool (R2ET) is an interactive mapping tool that illustrates current and projected coastal flooding risks to resources in the Northeast Florida region. The types of flooding mapped are FEMA flood hazard zones, storm surge, depth of flood at defined storm occurrence intervals, and sea level rise at defined water levels. Users can select data layers for resources to overlay on flooding layers including critical facilities, priority wildlife species, and vulnerable populations.
Authors or Affiliated Users: Angela Schedel, Margo Moehring
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Mainstreaming Sea Level Rise Preparedness in Local Planning and Policy on Maryland's Eastern Shore
January 2019
The Eastern Shore Land Conservancy partnered with the Georgetown Climate Center (GCC), the Eastern Shore Regional GIS Cooperative, and the University of Maryland Environmental Finance Center for this analysis on sea level rise preparedness in Maryland’s Eastern Shore region. GCC offers a discussion of strategies related to floodplain, zoning and regulatory standards to support sea level rise and coastal flooding resilience policies and decision making.
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Higher Standards: Opportunities for Enhancing Flood Resilience in the Eastern Shore of Maryland
January 2019
Georgetown Climate Center (GCC) prepared this report to help the Eastern Shore Climate Adaptation Partnership (ESCAP) identify strategies for adapting to increasing sea-level rise and flood risk in the Eastern Shore region of Maryland. This publication is a part of a series of reports assessing the sea-level rise vulnerability of communities in Maryland's Eastern Shore, as well as potential adaptation responses. ESCAP worked with the Eastern Shore Regional GIS cooperative to assess sea-level rise vulnerabilities in the six counties and two municipalities that participate in ESCAP.
Authors or Affiliated Users: Jessica Grannis, Katie Spidalieri, Jennifer Li
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Maryland Resiliency Hub Grant Program
November 1, 2018
The Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) created a $5 million Resiliency Hub Grant Program to provide funding in 2019 for the construction of community Resiliency Hubs with solar power and battery storage. The program provides funding to microgrid developers to offset some of the costs to build a Resiliency Hub in high-density, low- and moderate-income neighborhoods in Maryland. The program defines “Resiliency Hubs” as community facilities “designed to provide emergency heating and cooling capability, refrigeration of temperature sensitive medications and milk from nursing mothers, plug power for charging of cell phone and computer batteries, as well as emergency lighting.
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Maryland Climate Adaptation and Resilience Draft Framework 2021-2030
2019
In 2019, the Maryland Department of the Environment published the Maryland Climate Adaptation and Resilience Draft Framework: 2021-2030 (Framework). The result of a year's worth of working group sessions between representatives from state agencies, local government, non-profit organizations, and academia, the Framework is designed to serve as a statewide guide to help establish ongoing climate adaptation goals through 2030 and beyond.
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Baltimore, Maryland 2018 Disaster Preparedness and Planning Project (DP3)
December 20, 2018
The City of Baltimore, Maryland Disaster Preparedness and Planning Project (DP3) was first completed in 2013 and has been updated in 2018, to reflect the city’s commitment to reduce impact from current and future natural hazards, including climate change. Entitled a "combined all-hazard mitigation and climate adaptation plan," the 2018 DP3 identifies Baltimore's vulnerabilities to hazards including coastal storms, flooding, extreme heat, and high winds. The plan focuses on developing strategies that will reduce or eliminate loss of life and property damage within priority urban sectors of Infrastructure, Buildings, Natural Systems, and Public Services.
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Columbus, Ohio Climate Adaptation Plan
December 18, 2018
The City of Columbus, Ohio Climate Adaptation Plan offers recommended actions that can be taken to help Columbus and central Ohio prepare for and adapt to climate change. Developed by a task force of researchers from the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center at the Ohio State University, the plan is designed to support Columbus city government, regional organizations, and residents in building a climate resilient community.
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Eye of the Storm: Report of the Governor's Commission to Rebuild Texas
December 13, 2018
The Governor’s Commission to Rebuild Texas was established just after Hurricane Harvey devastated the Gulf Coast region of the state in August 2017. Governor Abbott directed the commission to determine ways to improve the process of disaster response and to develop strategies for protecting the region against future storms. The Commission’s report details the magnitude and impacts of Harvey; assesses the federal, state and local response to the disaster; and offers recommendations on how Texas can better prepare for future disasters.
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Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance, Miami, Florida
December 13, 2018
In 2018, Miami passed a mandatory inclusionary zoning (IZ) ordinance that requires the inclusion of affordable housing in the Omni Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) district, a 30-block area north of downtown Miami. Miami currently ranks lowest in the availability of affordable rental units among cities in the nation. Meanwhile, low-income communities in the city’s inland neighborhoods that are historically black and Latinx now face development pressures from wealthier residents seeking to relocate from the city’s low-lying coastal neighborhoods to the city’s inland neighborhoods.
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