U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

Boosting Community Storm Resilience in Alaska. Many remote coastal communities in Alaska currently have no formal storm history data, flood risk analysis, or way to predict and assess flooding impacts ...

Analyzing Future Urban Growth and Flood Risk in North Carolina. Researchers identified areas vulnerable to urban growth in Pender County, North Carolina. The team analyzed land cover change, mapped we ...

Drought Response and Recovery Project for Water Utilities in Clinton, OK. The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency's storymap contains case studies and videos that describe the experiences of small a ...

Throw Away Your Crystal Ball: A Stress Testing Approach to Infrastructure Planning Under Climate Change Uncertainty. Civil Engineers in the City of Portland, Oregon relate how they used data and custo ...

Drought in the ACF River Basin. Explore the historical context of drought in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) Basin, a primer on how water resources are managed there, and a look ahead to th ...

Innovative Green Infrastructure Project Has Diverse Funding And Financing Portfolio. Once a defunct golf course, Exploration Green is now a 200-acre urban green space providing the community with an i ...

Realizing Co-Benefits of Multimodal Roadway Design and Gray and Green Infrastructure. Explore on-the-ground examples of communities improving pedestrian and bicycle networks as co-benefits to building ...

Coastal Readiness Project Increases Hazard Readiness. A four-year multi-partner project empower's Washington State's coastal communities to strengthen their resilience to sea level rise, storm surges, ...

Using Novel Approaches To Create Resilient Dune Systems. After a series of storms ravaged Puerto Rican beaches, a team from the University of Puerto Rico used innovative restoration techniques—includi ...

A Community Works Together to Reduce Damages from Flooding. The Village of Walton, New York worked with their Soil and Water Conservation District to engage community members in decisions about floodi ...