Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation

The U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit is an interactive website and mapping platform designed to help people find and use tools, information and subject matter expertise related to climate resilience.

The Coastal Flood Exposure Mapper supports users undertaking a community-based approach to assessing coastal hazard risks and vulnerabilities by providing maps that show people, places and natural resources exposed to coastal flooding.

Neighborhoods at Risk is an easy-to-use website with interactive maps, charts and resources to help communities identify neighborhoods that may be more impacted by climate change. It shows where people may experience unequal impacts from flooding and extreme heat.

"Effects of Drought on Forests and Rangelands in the U.S." aims to help working land managers understand the impacts of drought and build resilience on their lands. It explains how drought is characterized, drought impacts on forest processes and disturbances such as insect outbreaks and wildfire...

The Coastal Resilience Index tool helps communities examine how prepared they are for storms and storm recovery. To complete the assessment, community leaders can get together and use the tool to guide discussion about their community's resilience to coastal hazards.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Climate Change website emphasizes adaptation, mitigation and engagement to address impacts to wildlife and natural habitat. This includes Rising to the Urgent Challenge: Strategic Plan for Responding to Accelerating Climate Change.

In this video, The Nature Conservancy's CRCS demo the map layers, tools and functionality of the Resilient Land Mapping tool.

"How to Consider Climate Change in Coastal Conservation" is an online, self-guided resource that provides a step-by-step approach, worksheets and curated resources to create a new conservation plan or update an existing one that incorporates climate change information.

This report examines climate change impacts on coastal ecosystems and human economies and communities, as well as the kinds of scientific data, planning tools and resources that coastal communities and and resource managers need to help them adapt to these changes.