Tools | U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

Tools are available to help you manage your climate-related risks and opportunities, and to help guide you in building resilience to extreme events. Browse the list below, or filter by topic and/or tool functionality in the boxes above. To expand your results, click the Clear Filters link.

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International Guidelines on Natural and Nature-Based Features for Flood Risk Management

This set of guidelines provides practitioners with the best available information concerning the conceptualization, planning, design, engineering, construction, and maintenance of NNBF to support resilience and flood risk reduction for coastlines, bays, and estuaries, as well as river and freshwater systems.

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Local Environmental Observer (LEO) Network

Network members post unique or unusual environmental events onto public, web-based maps. The network provides a model for connecting community members with technical experts and resources.

Lyme Disease Communications Toolkit

A variety of useful communication tools for state and local health departments about prevention of Lyme Disease.

Massachusetts Wildlife Climate Action Tool

Users in Massachusetts can access this tool to better understand the vulnerability of fish, wildlife, and natural resources to climate change, learn how to implement adaptation actions on the ground, and explore climate data and projections.

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National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy

Use this framework to take immediate, effective action toward building ecosystem resilience and maintaining ecosystem services in the face of climate challenges.

National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS)

This online portal provides information and resources to help communities understand—and prepare for—the health impacts of extreme heat.

National Sea Grant Resilience Toolkit

Search for tools and resources developed by the Sea Grant Network to help coastal communities across the nation become more resilient.

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National Weather Service | National Seasonal Safety Campaign

Individuals, communities, and professionals can access seasonal resources to help them be prepared for extreme weather, water, and climate events.

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National Weather Service | Office of Services Publications

Visit this website to download publications, brochures, and booklets to help prepare for weather emergencies.

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Nature-Based Solutions for Coastal Highway Resilience: An Implementation Guide

This Implementation Guide is designed to help transportation practitioners understand how and where nature-based and hybrid solutions can be used to improve the resilience of coastal roads and bridges.

New Hampshire Coastal Adaptation Workgroup Website

Municipal officials, educators, and citizens can use this site to quickly connect to information about how to reduce the risk of damage from coastal hazards and get involved with coastal adaptation projects in New Hampshire.

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Ocean Acidification Curriculum Collection

Use this database to download free K–12 lesson plans and other educational materials relating to ocean acidification.

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OSHA Heat Illness Prevention Resources

Employers can download free outreach materials from OSHA to help raise awareness about the health risks of extreme heat at work.

Peril of Flood | Florida's Coastal Resiliency Portal

Planners in Florida can find best practice approaches along with resources and tools for building coastal resilience.

Planning Framework for a Climate-Resilient Economy

Municipal officials interested in improving the resilience of their economy can use this flexible tool to get a "big picture" assessment of their climate vulnerabilities or to dive deeper and map out specific economic impacts or threats and business opportunities.

Public Involvement Techniques for Transportation Decisionmaking

This guide provides a variety of tools to secure meaningful input from the public on transportation plans, programs, and projects. Though designed specifically for transportation, the strategies can also be useful for other sectors.

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Ready Campaign

Find information on how you and your family can best prepare to deal with a natural disaster or weather-related emergency. The site includes information for building an emergency supply kit and making a family emergency plan.

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Ready Campaign | Extreme Heat Safety Social Media Toolkit

Heat safety messages and graphics for use in social media outreach campaigns.

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Ready Campaign | Military Family Preparedness

Military personnel and their families can access information to help them be prepared for all types of emergencies. Specific Ready programs are available for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard.

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Recognizing, Preventing, and Treating Heat-Related Illness

This online training course helps coaches, school nurses, students, and parents understand heat-related illness in student athletes.

Regional Adaptation Collaborative Toolkit

Groups interested in forming local or regional adaptation networks can build on this framework. Developed in California, the framework can be used elsewhere to help groups learn of successful strategies and adapt them for their own use.

Resilience Metrics

This website offers strategies and tools for measuring adaptation success.

Resilient NJ: Local Planning for Climate Change Toolkit

Individuals who represent, work, or volunteer for a municipal or county government in New Jersey can use this toolkit to understand how their community can proactively plan for the changing climate and build resilience into their local governance.

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Risk Mapping, Assessment, and Planning (Risk MAP) Program

This FEMA program helps communities identify, assess, communicate, and mitigate their flood risk through more precise flood mapping products, risk assessment tools, and support for planning and outreach.

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SAMHSA Disaster App

Responders can access mental health resources—including tip sheets and maps of area behavioral health service providers—from their mobile device before, during, and after an extreme weather event. SAMHSA stands for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Science Application for Risk Reduction

Access scenario models, public service announcements, technical reports, and other resources on topics such as risk perception and communication, winter storm/flooding, wildfire, and tsunami.

Seven Generations—Community-Based Environmental Planning

Environmental staff, community leaders, and community planners in rural Alaska can use this environmental planning process to help local community members understand and recognize climate impacts and build community capacity for resilience.

Small Community Emergency Response Plan (SCERP)

Small communities in Alaska can use this approach to develop customized flip books with essential, community-specific information for responding to a disaster.

Soak Up the Rain

This public outreach campaign and accompanying website offer individuals, municipalities, and organizations information on using green infrastructure to manage stormwater runoff and improve climate resilience.

Strawberry Advisory System

Florida strawberry growers can use this Web-based decision support tool for timing fungicide applications.

Sustainable and Climate-Resilient Health Care Facilities Toolkit

This toolkit includes a best practices document, a framework describing affordable measures that can help make health care facilities more resilient, and resources for responding to challenges associated with climate change impacts.

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Sustainable Jersey

This website provides an example of an established program that empowers communities to build a better world for future generations with the tools, training and financial incentives necessary to pursue critical sustainability initiatives at the state-wide level.

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