Coastal Sector Adaptation Strategies
This tab includes strategies for how to adapt to climate impacts in the coastal sector, including best practices and legal and policy analysis.
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October 31, 2011
The Adaptation Tool Kit explores 18 different land-use tools that can be used to preemptively respond to the threats posed by sea-level rise to both public and private coastal development and infrastructure, and strives to assist governments in determining which tools to employ to meet their unique socio-economic and political contexts.
Related Organizations: Harrison Institute, Georgetown Climate Center
Author or Affiliated User: Jessica Grannis
Resource Category: Planning
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October 28, 2015
The “Guidance for Considering the Use of Living Shorelines,” developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Living Shorelines Workgroup, represents an agency-wide effort to encourage the use of living shorelines as a shoreline stabilization technique along sheltered coasts. The report describes NOAA’s living shorelines guiding principles and how to navigate NOAA’s potential regulatory and programmatic roles in living shorelines project planning. This guidance also provides a conceptual framework of 12 questions to help NOAA and their partners when planning a shoreline stabilization effort.
Related Organizations: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Resource Category: Planning
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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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This report summarizes selected local land use ordinances and regulations that include specific mention of sea level rise or that incorporate appropriate policy responses that may be used to address sea level rise. While developed for The Nature Conservancy Long Island, it is a useful resource for any coastal state.
Related Organizations: Pace University School of Law, Land Use Law Center , The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
Resource Category: Law and Governance
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July 2015
From the Center for Planning for Excellence (CPEX), “The View from the Coast” examines local perspectives and projects from across coastal Louisiana related to nonstructural flood risk reduction. The report discusses federal, state and local level decision making and policy implementation, while documenting community-level risk-reduction perspectives towards nonstructural efforts to build resiliency against coastal impacts such as recurrent flooding, sea level rise and storm surge.
Related Organizations: Center for Planning Excellence
Authors or Affiliated Users: Camille Manning-Broome, Jeannette Dubinin, Pamela Jenkins
Resource Category: Solutions
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This comprehensive, web-based guide compiles sea level rise adaptation resources for local governments in coastal Virginia. The guide includes numerous case studies, both from Virginia and other coastal communities of the United States. It also highlights funding opportunities, costs and benefits of different approaches to adaptation, flags adaptation approaches eligible for receiving credit through the National Flood Insurance Program's Community Rating System, and explores means of public engagement.
Related Organizations: Wetlands Watch
Authors or Affiliated Users: Mary-Carson Stiff , Ross Weaver
Resource Category: Planning
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May 2012
This report provides an overview of policy options for limiting new construction in vulnerable coastal areas, and a summary of existing laws and regulations in states with federally approved coastal management programs (CMPs). To better understand and communicate how state CMPs manage ocean and Great Lake shorefront development, NOAA’s Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management (OCRM) conducted this study to look specifically at where states are employing shorefront strategies to protect the public interest and natural resources.
Related Organizations: NOAA Office for Coastal Management
Resource Category: Solutions
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February 2018
The Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions released a series of policy briefs for coastal planners to help them develop strategies for adapting to sea-level rise, including engineered, financial, and legal and regulatory strategies.
Related Organizations: Natural Capital Project
Authors or Affiliated Users: Eric Hartge , Jesse Reiblich
Resource Category: Solutions
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November 2008
This report examines the challenges California's coastal managers will face as a result of a changing climate, the adaptation tools available, and the extent to which federal, state, regional and local institutions are prepared for changing conditions. It demonstrates that climate change will reinforce the management tradeoffs that are already present, bringing new challenges to the balancing act between nature and coastal development.
Related Organizations: Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC)
Authors or Affiliated Users: Ellen Hanak, Georgina Moreno
Resource Category: Solutions
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September 2011
The Delaware Coastal Programs Section of the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) is leading a multi-year Sea Level Rise Initiative to help assess, prepare for and minimize the potential impacts of sea level rise. The Sea Level Rise Initiative Project Compendium was released in September 2011, which provides an inventory of all of Delaware Coastal Programs' projects related to sea level rise. It is intended to help increase collaboration between agencies, reduce redundancy and overlap in projects relating to sea level rise and to relay information about new data, information and tools.
Related Organizations: University of Delaware, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC)
Author or Affiliated User: Susan Love
Resource Category: Solutions
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