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 more
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Best Practices for Coastal Louisiana Manual not just for Louisiana
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 more
Fast, Perfect, and Cheap Disaster Response
"The federal government is a support role. So if you think FEMA responds to disasters or that we're in charge, first of all, we're never in charge, we're always in support, and and we work for a lot of different folks."
FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate delivers a great TED talk on the federal role in disasters, what we're doing wrong when we respond to them... »read more
NOAA Releases New Storm Surge Brochure
NOAA's National Hurricane Center Storm Surge Unit has put together a new brochure explaining the what storm surge is and how to best measure it.
There's nothing here on how to prevent losses, but the before/after shots (on page 3) should motivate some people to think about how we need to plan for it.
Added to our Sources for Outreach Materials page.... »read more
Animated Map of Extreme Weather Events
Just an animated map showing last year's extreme weather events around the country. Amusing if you don't think about it. Very worrisome if you do.
Extreme Weather... »read more
New Hampshire Funding Opportunity: NHDES Coastal Program Accepting Grant Applications
The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services Coastal Program is currently accepting applications for its 2012 competitive grant round. Eligible activities include projects that help make communities more resilient to flooding and other natural hazards. Proposals are due on February 6, 2012.
See the NHDES site for eligibility requirements and the... »read more
New Climate Report for New Hampshire Released
Climate Change in the Piscataqua/Great Bay Region: Past, Present, and Future—a comprehensive report on how the climate of New Hampshire's Piscataqua/Great Bay region has changed over the past century and how it will be affected by future human activities—was released at the December 2011 New Hampshire Coastal Climate Summit: Collaborating for... »read more
New Reality: Innocous High Tide Floods Street [video]
Delaware Sea Grant has released a great short video showing how a little (offshore) storm plus a high tide can affect a seemingly safe street. Take a short break and watch. Expect a lot more like this as we see more sea level rise.... »read more
New Webinar: The Front Lines of Climate Change
Next Wednesday (November 30th) at 2PM CST the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium will be hosting what sounds like an interesting webinar on how climate change is impacting Bangladesh (for those who don't know, that nation is often cited as one of the countries most susceptible to negative climate change impacts). The talk will be given by Taibur... »read more
Army Corps of Engineers Releases Updated Sea Level Rise Procedures
The Army Corps of Engineers has updated its circular ("Sea-Level Change Considerations For Civil Works Programs") spelling out how it will approach designing its projects to address sea level rise.
If your community has any Corps projects, you'll definitely want to have a quick skim (it's shorter than it looks: most of the important stuff is in the first... »read more
The Latest on Post-Disaster Recovery [audio]
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.
You can listen to... »read more
