Practitioner's Guide Resources
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Get Started
- 1.1 Planning Team Contacts - Worksheet
- 1.2 Plans, Initiatives, and Context Inventory - Worksheet
- 1.3 Vision, Values, and Goals - Worksheet
- 1.4 Project Timeline - Worksheet
- 1.5 Kickoff Meeting Agenda - Worksheet
- 1.6 Kickoff Meeting Slides - Template
- Comparable Risk Frameworks to the Steps to Resilience
- Community Disaster Resilience Zones and National Risk Indices Resource
- Facilitation Basics for Coastal Managers (Instructor-led Course)
Understand Exposure
- 2.1 Systems Thinking and Conceptual Models - Guidance
- 2.2 Build a Conceptual Model - Worksheet
- 2.3 Community Asset Themes - Worksheet
- 2.4 Identifying Hazards, Climate Stressors, Social Vulnerability, and Non-Climate Stressors - Guidance
- 2.5 Evaluate Hazards and Stressors - Worksheet
- 2.6 Potential Impacts Matrix - Worksheet
- 2.7 Sources for Spatial Data - Guidance
- 2.8 Spatial Data Collection - Worksheet
- 2.9 Tips for Collecting Spatial Data - Guidance
- 2.10 Community Asset Types and Spatial Data - Worksheet
- 2.11 Social Vulnerability Indicators and Spatial Data - Worksheet
- 2.12 Annotated Agenda for Meeting to Review Exposure- Template
- 2.13 Meeting to Review Exposure Slides - Template
- CSCI Risk and Risk Management Narrative
Assess Vulnerability and Risk
- 3.1 Determine Assessment Type - Worksheet
- 3.2 Guiding Questions for Narrative Assessments - Worksheet
- 3.3 Ruleset Library - Guidance
- 3.4 Ruleset Development - Worksheet
- 3.5 From Rulesets to Maps - Worksheet
- 3.6 Quality Control Checklist - Guidance
- 3.7 Preliminary Results Meeting Agenda - Template
- 3.8 Preliminary Results Meeting Slides - Template
- 3.9 Preliminary Results Feedback - Worksheet
- 3.10 Develop Impact Statements - Worksheet
- 3.11 Vulnerability and Risk Synthesis Report - Template
- 3.12 Impact Statements Workshop Agenda - Template
- 3.13 Impact Statements Workshop Slides - Template
Investigate Options
- 4.1 Facilitation Recommendations - Guidance
- 4.2 Develop Resilience Objectives - Worksheet
- 4.3 Inventory Options from Existing Plans - Worksheet
- 4.4 Integrating National Options into Community Inventory
- 4.5 Inventory of Community Options - Worksheet
- 4.6 Action Types and Subactions - Guidance
Prioritize and Plan
- 5.1 Criteria for Evaluating Options - Worksheet
- 5.2 Community Options Prioritization Table - Worksheet
- 5.3 STAPLEE Descriptions and Guiding Questions - Guidance
- 5.4 STAPLEE Score Sheet - Worksheet
- 5.5 Considerations for Benefit-Cost Analysis - Guidance
- 5.6 Comparing Financing Tools - Guidance
- 5.7 Barriers to Resilience Funding and Finance - Guidance
- 5.8 Resilience Plan Outline and Guiding Questions
- Grant Proposal Development Resources (PDFs)
Take Action
- 6.1 Communications Plan - Guidance
- 6.2 Measuring Success - Guidance
- Preparing for Effective Risk Communication (Asynchronous Online Course)
- Moving from Faith-based to Tested Adaptation Process and Approach: How Will We Know We’re Adapting? (PDF)
- Resilience Metrics: Exploring and Identifying Indicators
- Long-Term Community Resilience Exercise Resource Guide
Resources included in the Practitioner's Guide
Data Tools
- Climate Mapping For Resilience and Adaptation
- Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool
- Mapping Inequality: Redlining Map
- Climate Resilience Toolkit Options Database
- Tribal Resilience Actions Database
- Local Greenhouse Gas Inventory Tool
- National Risk Index
- Coastal Flood Exposure Mapper
- Wildfire Risk to Communities
- Heat.gov
- Climate Explorer
- CDC/ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index
- Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency
Training
- Funding and Financing Coastal Resilience Webinars
- Economic Approaches for Decision-Making
- Facilitation Basics
- Preparing for Effective Risk Communication
- Climate 101: Science, Impacts, and Society
Guides
- Spectrum of Community Engagement Engagement
- Funding and Financing: Options and Considerations for Coastal Resilience Projects
- Ready-to-Fund Resilience - Adaptation Professionals
- Methodology Guide: Benefit-Cost Analysis
- FEMA Benefit-Cost Analysis
- Decision-Making Under Deep Uncertainty
- State Climate Summaries
- Facilitation Techniques
- Introduction to Stakeholder Participation
- Meeting Engagement Tools
- Centering Equity in Climate Resilience Planning and Action: A Practitioner’s Guide
- Incorporating Nature-based Solutions in Community Climate Adaptation Planning
- Moving from Faith-based to Tested Adaptation Process and Approach: How Will We Know We’re Adapting?
Contacts
- Cohort Support Questions: Jim Fox (jfox@fernleaf.us)
- CSCI Grant Questions: Elizabeth (Liz) Tully (liz@climateresiliencefund.org)
- Options Database Questions: Karin Rogers (krogers@unca.edu)
- Workshop/ Training Questions: Kenneth Rainer (kenneth.rainer@noaa.gov)