Coastal Resilience

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.

Learn about how land trusts can apply for the National Coastal Resilience Fund.

With a goal of increasing collaboration and capacity to address climate change, Maine Coast Heritage Trust developed and delivered a Coastal Resilience Master Class for land trusts working in Maine’s coastal region.

The National Coastal Resilience Fund, administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in partnership with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, aims to restore and strengthen natural infrastructure to protect coastal communities and habitat.

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.

This guide provides a step-by-step approach for incorporating climate change information into new or existing conservation plans. The guide's six steps focus on climate considerations and key resources specifically relevant to the coastal environment, including coastal watersheds.

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.

The coastal blue carbon manual aims to provide standardized methods for field measurements and analysis of blue carbon stocks and flux in coastal ecosystems.

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.