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Roadmap to Support Local Climate Resilience: Lessons from the Rising Tides Summit
December 2016
The World Resource Institute released a report discussing actions that the federal government can take to promote local resilience initiatives on December 15, 2016. The report describes the federal actions that have been taken to promote state and local resilience initiatives by the Obama administration and describes ways that the new administration can build upon and enhance these efforts. The report also includes case studies from around the country about ways that cities, states and tribal governments are preparing for the impacts of climate change.
Related Organizations: World Resources Institute (WRI)
Authors or Affiliated Users: Claiborne Tompkins, Nathan Cogswell
Resource Category: Law and Governance
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Modernizing HUD’s Consolidated Planning Process to Narrow the Digital Divide and Increase Resilience to Natural Hazards
December 16, 2016
This final rule updates the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD's) Consolidated Plan planning process to require states and local governments to consider two additional concepts: 1) the availability of broadband access, and 2) the vulnerability of housing occupied by low- and moderate-income households to natural hazards risks, many of which may be increasing due to climate change. Consolidated Plans are used by state and local governments receiving HUD funds to assess their affordable housing and community development needs, so that they may make place-based investment decisions.
Related Organizations: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Resource Category: Law and Governance
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A Greater LA: Climate Action Framework
December 2016
A Greater LA: Climate Action Framework was developed by the Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability (LARC) to help leaders in the LA region identify and implement the most promising and effective measures for reducing emissions and increasing resilience to climate change. It was designed to prioritize issues and actions that can have the most regional impact and that require more cross-county coordination.
Related Organizations: Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability (LARC)
Resource Category: Law and Governance
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A Greater LA: Climate Action Framework - Transportation and Land Use
December 2016
The Transportation and Land Use section of Los Angeles County, California's Climate Action Framework (A Greater LA) identifies regional-scale priorities for the County region to reduce emissions and improve public health, air quality, and climate resilience through transportation and land use decisions. The Framework, which also contains sections for four other sectors, was developed by the Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability (LARC) to support more coordinated and collaborative regional policies relating to climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Related Organizations: Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability (LARC)
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A Greater LA: Climate Action Framework - Water
December 2016
The Water section of Los Angeles County, California's Climate Action Framework (A Greater LA) identifies climate change impacts on water resources in the Los Angeles County region, and regional-scale priorities for improving the reliability of the region's water supply under future conditions. The Framework, which also contains sections for four other sectors, was developed by the Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability (LARC) to support more coordinated and collaborative regional policies relating to climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Related Organizations: Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability (LARC)
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OMB Standards and Finance to Support Community Resilience
December 21, 2016
The White House has been coordinating efforts in partnership with insurance and finance leaders on strategic objectives to increase community resilience and insurability since 2014. From the White House Office of Management and Budget, Standards and Finance to Support Community Resilience is designed to identify opportunities for continued collaboration and help ensure that “future investments will be climate smart from the start, that damaged communities build back smarter, and that both public and private sectors are poised to seize new opportunities to achieve resilience.
Resource Category: Planning
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Our Coast, Our Future
The Our Coast, Our Future (OCOF) project provides online maps and tools of local sea level rise and storm vulnerability within the San Francisco Bay Area, California. OCOF has modelled coastal impacts such as water levels, wave heights, flooding, and erosion; and mapping infrastructure and ecosystem vulnerabilities at scales relevant to planning and management.
Related Organizations: Point Blue Conservation Science (PRBO), Bay Area Ecosystems Climate Change Consortium (BAECCC), Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, NOAA Office for Coastal Management, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), National Park Service (NPS)
Resource Category: Planning
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Lessons in Regional Resilience: Case Studies on Regional Climate Collaboratives
January 19, 2017
The Georgetown Climate Center report, Lessons in Regional Resilience, documents lessons learned from regional climate collaboratives, which are bringing together local governments and other stakeholders to coordinate climate change initiatives at a regional level. This synthesis report shares lessons from each of the collaboratives in individual case studies, and offers insight to their goals, planning processes, and funding sources. The report is intended to help local governments consider models for coordinating at the regional level to facilitate planning and action to prepare for the impacts of climate change and draws on examples from six regional collaboratives from around the country.
Related Organizations: Georgetown Climate Center
Authors or Affiliated Users: Annie Bennett, Jessica Grannis
Resource Category: Law and Governance
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FEMA: How to Prepare for a Wildfire
This wildfire safety brief from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) offers strategies to help protect yourself before, during, and after a wildfire. It also reviews how to protect your property - describing construction and fire-resistant materials, as well as creating landscaping zones designed for defensible space and reducing flammable vegetation.
Related Organizations: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Resource Category: Education and Outreach
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Case Study: Boulder, Colorado’s Home Preparedness Assessment Program
2017
In early 2017, the City of Boulder and Boulder County used Community Development Block Grant for Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funding to launch a pilot home resilience retrofit program called the Home Preparedness Assessment program (HPA). HPA was open to city and county single-family and mobile-family homeowners impacted by floods that swept through the Boulder region in the fall of 2013. While the program primarily addressed flooding risks in homes, the program coordinators used the home assessments to have broader conversations with homeowners about other natural disaster risks and resilience.
Related Organizations: Boulder County, Colorado, City of Boulder, Colorado, APTIM
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