U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

A Road-Flooding Fix for a California State Park. Flooding from rain and extreme high tides often leaves the road to San Francisco's China Camp State Park inaccessible. So a diverse group of stakeholde ...

The Pacific Islands Climate Storybook. To empower community climate adaptation in the Pacific Islands, a multi-island coalition expanded upon a 2015 comprehensive template for writing climate stories ...

Pollution and Coral Health in the Virgin Islands. Coral communities are under pressure from land-based pollutants and sediments. Now, coastal managers now can access an effective tool to correlate hum ...

Streamlining Transportation Solutions Along The California Coast. Learn how a unique partnership between the California Coastal Commission and California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) stream ...

The Road to Resilience. Frequent and severe inland flooding is an increasing problem for North Carolina's transportation system. A multi-agency team is working to understand the impacts of these flood ...

Tribal Community Partners with Researchers to Monitor Food and Climate. Residents of a rural Alaska village are studying their environment to understand and protect their food. Their research partners ...

Mapping Social Vulnerabilities to Enhance Resilience in Richmond. Differences in social vulnerability across Richmond meant that the city's resilience plan didn't work equally well for all neighborhoo ...

What if it Happened Here? Boston Takes a Lesson From Houston's Hurricane Harvey. Faced with the possibility of a storm similar to Hurricane Harvey hitting Boston, the City Mayor had city planners eval ...

A Community Effort Stems Runoff to Safeguard Corals in Puerto Rico. In Culebra, Puerto Rico, the community used green infrastructure to decrease coastal erosion and mitigate damage to their near-shore ...

Virginia Beach Becomes Sea Level Wise. Increased flooding resulting from a combination of rising sea level and increasing annual rainfall drives an ambitious city-wide, cross-departmental study to pre ...