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 moreTags: adaptation & mitigation, climate change, sea level rise
Pretty easy.
A freeboard success story from FEMA:
Gail Cunningham Coen of Westport wishes that people would realize how easy it is to elevate your flood-prone house, especially when the Long Island Sound is just feet from your front door. “We didn’t even take the pictures off the wall,” Coen said, referring to the elevation of her home in 1994., »read moreTags: adaptation & mitigation, building, case study, sea level rise
“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 Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety has released a video of their webinar last week, "IBHS Fortified for Existing Homes and FEMA’s Wind Retrofit Guide."
The webinar covered the joint engineering guidance provided by the IBHS FORTIFIED for Existing Homes program and FEMA’s Wind Retrofit Guide, both of which were introduced in 2010 with, »read moreTags: adaptation & mitigation, building
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
Tags: adaptation & mitigation, climate change, hazard identification, planning, sea level rise, video, weather & climate
From a FEMA press-release:
We are pleased to announce the release of the first edition of the National Preparedness Goal, which is available for download at http://www.fema.gov/PPD8. The National Preparedness Goal is the first deliverable called for by Presidential Policy Directive (PPD) 8 and was signed by the Secretary of Homeland Security on September, »read more
Not sure how to get started on a climate change adaptation plan? Have a look at what the San Francisco Bay area has drafted with their new "Climate Change Hits Home" report.
The plan includes:
Anticipated regional impacts
Vulnerable areas and adaptation strategies (includes public safety and health, transportation, ecosystems and biodiversity, energy,, »read moreTags: adaptation & mitigation, climate change, publications, sea level rise
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As reported in the New York Times, last week (at the 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, »read moreTags: adaptation & mitigation, climate change, hazard identification, planning, sea level rise, weather & climate
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