Coastal Resilience Index
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About This Report / White Paper
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.
National Coastal Resilience Fund for Land Trust Community
Learn about how land trusts can apply for the National Coastal Resilience Fund.
Coastal Resilience
The Nature Conservancy's Coastal Resilience Network provides geographically targeted resources to address ecological and socio-economic risks of coastal hazards through raising awareness, assessing risk, identifying choices and taking action.
Land Trusts Working Together to Strengthen Coastal Resilience in Maine
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.
National Coastal Resilience Fund
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 U.S. Climate Vulnerability Index
The U.S. Climate Vulnerability Index helps you see which communities face the greatest challenges from the impacts of a changing climate. This tool shows what is driving the challenges, so policymakers and communities themselves can take action to build climate resilience where it is needed most.
Rebuilding for Resilience — Together
U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit
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.
Coastal impacts, adaptation, and vulnerabilities: a technical input to the 2013 National Climate Assessment
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.
Coastal Flood Exposure Mapper
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.
Guide for Considering Climate Change in Coastal Conservation
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.