U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

Narrative : . Recent sudies have shown that coastal blue carbon ecosystems are significant carbon sinks, presenting new opportunities for carbon finance to benefit wetland habitat restoratio ...

Narrative : . Research indicates that coastal wetlands might capture and store carbon at rates three to five times greater than forests. Research also suggests that nitrogen pollution from s ...

Narrative : . NOAA Fisheries has developed a set of social indicators to document vulnerability and resilience within fishing communities. The indicators can help communities recognize vulne ...

Narrative : . This guide provides a brief introduction to key physical impacts of climate change on estuaries and a review of on-the-ground adaptation options available to coastal managers t ...

Narrative : . This document provides a primer on more than a dozen land use and legal tools for ensuring that intertidal habitats (wetlands, mudflats, and beaches) can persist even as sea le ...

Narrative : . The Fisheries Resilience Index is a self-assessment tool developed for fishery industry leaders and businesses. The guide can help businesses and communities identify vulnerabi ...

Narrative : . Coastal ecosystems are critical to maintaining human well-being and global biodiversity. Mangroves, tidal salt marshes, and seagrasses sequester and store significant amounts o ...

Narrative : . New England communities are taking action to adapt to the impacts of climate change in new and creative ways. The Resilience and Adaptation in New England (RAINE) database cata ...

Narrative : . The Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Tool for Coastal Habitats (CCVATCH) is a decision support tool for land managers, decision makers, and researchers that integrates l ...

Narrative : . The seaweeds are a diverse group of large marine macroalgae that are as important to our nearshore coastal marine world as land plants are to our terrestrial world. Seaweeds we ...