U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

Mandeville, Louisiana: A City that Stays Afloat by Promoting Elevations. The City of Mandeville, located in St. Tammany Parish, decided to commit to helping residents escape troublesome flood waters. ...

Successes of CDC's Climate-Ready States and Cities Initiative. CDC's Climate and Health Program helps states, cities, territories, and tribes protect human health from a changing climate. CDC provides ...

Amending Land Use Codes for Natural Infrastructure Planning. Learn how a Sea Grant agent is working with one community to audit and amend its existing land use codes and ordinances to be more inclusiv ...

Promoting Ecotourism to Conserve a Watershed in Virginia. Realizing the Lower Chickahominy Watershed would one day be at risk of development for economic gain, the coastal planner with the Virginia Co ...

UVM Students Offer Real-World Climate Recommendations to Vermont Town. The town of Underhill, Vermont, is considering climate-change recommendations developed and presented by some intrepid University ...

City of Fayetteville's Watershed Master Plan. In order to better assess the severity of city-wide floods and create flood mitigation solutions, Fayetteville, North Carolina's city officials embarked o ...

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 ...

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 ...

Drought Response and Recovery Project for Water Utilities in North Marin Water District, CA. The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency's storymap contains case studies and videos that describe the exp ...

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