U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

Zoning Ordinance Overhauled To Increase Community Resilience To Flooding. The city of Norfolk, Virginia, is like many other coastal communities facing sea level rise. The city chose to take a bold ste ...

South Carolina's Lowcountry Prepares for Changing Global Conditions. The coastal plain of South Carolina, known as the Lowcountry, was used to study the role of local conservation groups and broad sta ...

Home Elevation Program Helps Demystify The Process. Click the link below to read the Peer-to-Peer Case Study by NOAA's Digital Coast: Home Elevation Program Helps Demystify The Process. * Home ...

The Water Institute of the Gulf — Port Fourchon: Supporting Resiliency on an Evolving Coast. To ensure community support for nature-based reuse of dredged material in Port Fourchon, the Water Institut ...

Cleveland Metroparks — Cleveland Harbor Eastern Embayment Resilience Study (CHEERS). Cleveland Metroparks needed to consider how to engage surrounding neighborhoods and residents in restoring Lake Eri ...

Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council. To help communities identify shoreline adaptation projects, the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council proactively formed partnerships wit ...

North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality. Local governments often lack capacity to implement coastal resilience projects. This department provided voluntary incentives for communities to par ...

The Nature Conservancy — Wetlands Restoration for Ecosystem and Community Resilience in He'eia O'ahu. To restore function in a degraded but historically, culturally, and ecologically important watersh ...

Florida Experiment Lessens Shoreline Damage from High-Energy Waves. Click the link below to read Florida Experiment Lessens Shoreline Damage from High-Energy Waves as published by the NOAA Office for ...

Community Leadership Paves the Way to Promising Erosion Treatment. A project that mimics aspects of cobble sand beaches virtually stopped the erosion of shoreline uplands in pilot studies aided by NOA ...