U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

Narrative :. Total water level (TWL) at the shoreline is the combination of tides, surge, and wave runup. The Total Water Level and Coastal Change Forecast viewer shows animated estimates of the eleva ...

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 ...

Narrative :. FEMA’s Community Rating System (CRS) is a voluntary program that encourages communities to earn a discount on flood insurance premiums for actions that contribute to their flood risk redu ...

Narrative :. Access coastal change science and data organized into three coastal change hazard themes:. 1. Extreme storms—Through processes like dune erosion, overwash, and inundation, storms reshape ...

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 ...

Planning for the Win! Using a Role Play Simulation to Plan for Climate Adaptation. Following a role play simulation on community planning for climate adaptation in Georgetown County, South Carolina, p ...

Narrative :. Environmental and natural resource officials from the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi, along with personnel at the Department of Defen ...

Narrative :. This toolkit compiles the latest scientific guidance and tools to help managers to assess social and ecological vulnerability to climate change and other stressors. It focuses on simple a ...

Published :. April 2021. “Landscape conservation,” a now common term in conservation biology, emphasizes the importance of planning at scales that encompass ecological processes and species migrations ...

Published :. June 2021. Climate change is expected to disrupt many aspects of life in American Sāmoa. Those who are already vulnerable—including children, the elderly, low-income families, and individ ...