Land Trust Alliance

Coastal Climate Adaptation Website

Kimberly Seese — 2012-03-07T22:20:00Z

Coastal Climate Adaptation Website provides resources on climate adaptation that can aid in conservation planning to address climate impacts.

Marshes on the Move

Kimberly Seese — 2012-03-07T22:20:00Z

Marshes on the Move provides a basic understanding of parameters, uncertainties, and appropriate uses of model results depicting potential future impacts of sea level rise on coastal wetlands.

Adapting to Climate Change: A Planning Guide for State Coastal Managers

Kimberly Seese — 2012-03-07T22:20:00Z

Adapting to Climate Change: A Planning Guide for State Coastal Managers is a new guide being offered by OCRM to aid in the development and implementation of adaptation plans. The guide provides science-based information on climate change to set the context for adaptation planning and includes steps for setting up a planning process, assessing vulnerability, devising a strategy, and implementing the plan. Web-only publication

U.S. Interagency Elevation Inventory

Kimberly Seese — 2012-03-07T22:20:00Z

The U.S. Interagency Elevation Inventory provides a comprehensive listing of known high-accuracy topographic and bathymetric data for the U.S. and its territories. Elevation data is necessary to develop coastal elevation models and are critical components when looking at sea level rise, coastal flooding, beach nourishment, erosion, or any other processes that occur within the land-water interface. For more information, contact NOAA Coastal Services Center.

Coastal Vulnerability Maps and Study – U.S. East Coast and Texas

Kimberly Seese — 2012-03-07T22:20:00Z

Coastal Vulnerability Maps and Study – U.S. East Coast and Texas shows the elevation of coastal areas from Massachusetts to Florida. A sea level rise planning study – which integrates information related to land use, zoning, and anticipated development to determine the future likelihood of shore protection and prevention of inland wetland migration – is also included. This study covers coastal areas from Massachusetts to Florida, and Texas.

The Shoreline Management Toolbox

Kimberly Seese — 2012-03-07T22:20:00Z

Shoreline erosion is a natural process. However, sea level rise and poorly planned shoreline development projects can accelerate natural erosion rates. The Shoreline Management Toolbox presents alternative approaches for human uses and development near the shoreline.

Conserving Coastal Wetlands for Sea Level Rise Adaptation

Kimberly Seese — 2012-03-07T22:20:00Z

Conserving Coastal Wetlands for Sea Level Rise Adaptation provides spatial techniques, resources, and examples to help communities identify coastal wetland and other vulnerabilities in the face of sea level rise―and to prioritize wetland conservation efforts that incorporate sea level rise considerations.

Coastal Inundation Toolkit

Kimberly Seese — 2012-03-07T22:20:00Z

Coastal Inundation Toolkit assists users with planning and abatement of inundation. The tools included throughout the Toolkit help coastal communities evaluate and visualize inundation changes with their local infrastructure and aid residents in creating plans for adaptation. The Toolkit is designed to help communities determine their coastal flooding vulnerability and what steps they can take to reduce this risk and can be a valuable resource for incorporating climate change impacts into conservation planning.

Climate Smart Habitat Conservation

Kimberly Seese — 2012-03-07T22:20:00Z

Climate Smart Habitat Conservation provides information and links on the benefits of incorporating climate change into coastal habitat conservation efforts.

Climate Ready Estuaries Coastal Toolkit

Kimberly Seese — 2012-03-07T22:20:00Z

The Climate Ready Estuaries Coastal Toolkit provides resources for estuaries, coastal programs and other organizations that are interested in learning more about climate change impacts and adaptation. The Toolkit pages provide information and links to websites, reports, and other resources related to the following areas: monitoring climate change; coastal vulnerability and adaptation tools; smart growth in the context of climate change; communications and outreach materials; where to find data; adaptation planning; and sustainable financing options.

Coastal Land Trusts and Climate Change Adaptation

Kimberly Seese — 2012-03-07T22:20:00Z

Coastal Land Trusts and Climate Change Adaptation (6/2/11) discusses how land trusts on-the-ground are incorporating climate change impacts into conservation priorities and how resources available through this website can help land trusts incorporate climate change into their conservation efforts.
Download presentation (pdf) or watch the webinar recording. Note: the presentation begins after a short pause (1.3 minutes).

Smart Growth and Water Publications

Kimberly Seese — 2012-03-07T22:20:00Z

Smart Growth and Water Publications offers two tools and publications appropriate for communities addressing climate change along the coast. Smart Growth for Coastal and Waterfront Communities builds on existing smart growth principles to offer 10 specific development guidelines for coastal and waterfront communities, along with tools, techniques, and examples. The Water Quality Scorecard offers policy options for green infrastructure across different scales of land use and across multiple municipal departments.

Smart Growth for Coastal and Waterfront Communities Guidance

Kimberly Seese — 2012-03-07T22:20:00Z

Smart Growth for Coastal and Waterfront Communities Guidance presents coastal and waterfront-specific strategies for development, including strategies for open space protection as part of a smart growth framework.

Shifting Shorelines, Shifting Conservation Strategies: Assessing Wetland Conservation Priorities in Maryland

Kimberly Seese — 2012-03-07T22:20:00Z

Shifting Shorelines, Shifting Conservation Strategies: Assessing Wetland Conservation Priorities in Maryland provides geospatial best practices for incorporating sea level rise into wetland conservation priorities and how the State of Maryland has applied these concepts to identify priority wetland conservation areas for climate adaptation.

Rolling Easements

Kimberly Seese — 2012-03-07T22:20:00Z

Rolling Easements presents vision, in which future development of some low-lying coastal lands is based on the premise that eventually the land must give way to the rising sea. The EPA provides a primer on more than a dozen approaches for ensuring that wetlands and beaches can migrate inland, as people remove buildings, roads, and other structures from land as it becomes submerged. Collectively, these approaches are known as rolling easements.