Smart Growth Fixes for Climate Adaptation and Resilience

This document can help governments identify policy strategies that can save lives, protect property, and strengthen their economies by adapting to climate change.

Determining what a community needs to be resilient to is a critical part in building resilience, so this publication addresses barriers and impacts communities are likely to face as the climate changes, with chapters on social and legal barriers, overall strategies, flooding and extreme participation, sea level rise, extreme heat and drought and wildfire. These policy options bring multiple short- and long-term environmental, economic, health, and societal benefits that can not only prepare a community and its residents and businesses for the impacts of climate change, but also improve everyday life.

The site also offers a sortable table of the policy options included in the publication.