The Center for Planning Excellence (CPEX) and the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) recently released the Best Practices Manual for Development in Coastal Louisiana website.
What's novel about this site is that it provides strategies for creating sustainable and resilient coastal communities based on "geotypes" (pick from chenier, »read moreTags: adaptation & mitigation, infrastructure, planning, publications
The American Planning Association has released a short interview with Ed Thomas and Alessandra Jerolleman (both from the Natural Hazard Mitigation Association) on the best way for communities to recover quickly and safely from a major storm, flood, etc. Their work is the foundation of our (largely in development) After the Storm section.
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“Hazard mitigation is very important and there’s a lot of value in looking at past events, but we know with climate change that we can’t use the past to project what the future will be like. For example, the flood that a community used to experience every 100 years may now be the 20-year flood.”
Nice Coastal Services Magazine article on Lewes,, »read moreTags: adaptation & mitigation, case study, climate change, planning, sea level rise, weather & climate
The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission has voted unanimously to pass a development plan for land within 100 feet of the bay's coastline. The plan—which requires that decisions about land use in the area consider factors including the latest climate science and the importance of wetland restoration—gives the agency a tool to deny, »read moreTags: case study, climate change, hazard identification, planning, regulations, sea level rise
FEMA has updated their bible on construction in coastal areas, the Coastal Construction Manual. Like the bible, it's no pamphlet: this version comes in at 253 pages and a hefty 33MB. But if you're involved in any sort of construction in coastal areas (including deciding where it should happen), you already know that you need it anyway. You can find a little, »read moreTags: adaptation & mitigation, Building, planning, research
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Have a look at the new Miami-Dade County Storm Surge Simulator which lets you click on a map to show where you live and then select the severity of the storm before it shows you just how deep that water will be when that next hurricane hits. You can even select whether you want to see the depth shown on a person, a home, or a villa (I did mention this was, »read moreTags: hazard identification, Mapping, planning, technology, training & outreach, weather & climate
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As reported in the New York Times, at last week's Coastal Zone conference in Chicago, FEMA shared some results from a pending study looking at the projected effects of climate change on the National Flood Insurance Program.
The short version? It's not looking pretty, and the challenges won't be confined to coastal areas either. Floodplains are going to, »read moreTags: adaptation & mitigation, climate change, hazard identification, planning, sea level rise, weather & climate
It's not hard to get overwhelmed when considering your community's current flood and erosion problems. Add in projections for what future climates will bring and it's enough to make you want to just stay at home (at least until the sea comes into your home).
Unfortunately, nobody has found a silver bullet to save coastal development from future sea levels, »read moreTags: adaptation & mitigation, climate change, infrastructure, legal, planning, publications, regulations, sea level rise, weather & climate, zoning
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