Resources

This checklist is a tool for natural resource agencies to evaluate the implications of climate change on project planning, including function, longevity and impact. It will assist planners and managers in building climate consideration directly into funding, permitting and planning phases and reduce liabilities or avoid actions that will be ineffective when taking climate change into consideration. 

The adaptation workbook serves as a guide for land managers to consider climate change and learn about possible adaptation measures in planning efforts. It was created by the Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science and is geared more towards forest lands. 

Evidence-based planning for changing climate, includes forecasts, adaptations, tools, resilience resources, planning and policy. 

The Guide is designed to help local government, regional entities, and climate organizations incorporate best practices and current science and research into their adaptation plans. 

This is a website that has case studies about climate change adaptation across the united states. 

Recognizing the need to prepare and adapt, the Sustainable DC Plan established a goal to make the District more resilient to future climate change. Climate Ready DC is the District’s strategy for achieving this goal while helping to ensure that our city continues to grow greener, healthier, and more livable. 

The US Climate Resilience toolkit site, managed by NOAA, includes resources that define and provide solutions for mitigation, adaptation, vulnerability, and resilience. The climate resilience toolkit includes steps to resilience, case studies, and tools.

The Coastal Restoration Toolkit is managed by Restore America's Estuaries. It provides tools, funding sources, case studies for critical climate change impacts including: flooding, coastal erosion, water quality, invasive species, and wildlife and habitat restoration.

The Getting To Resilience tool is an effort through NERRs and other organizations to provide communities with an online self assessment tool to better understand how to reduce vulnerability and increase preparedness by linking planning, mitigation, and adaptation. 

The roadmap to mitigating and adapting to the effects of climate change. Co-created by residents and partners, the plan includes opportunities for City staff and people who live and work in Milwaukie to join together and address this challenge. 

The guide supports assessments of training, education, tool, and data needs, as well as needs for successfully addressing coastal management issues. Once the situation and need, is known, the information can be used to make a decision about how to create an effective solution. 

This summarizes New Hampshire’s coastal vulnerabilities to projected coastal flood hazards and puts forth recommendations and actions for the State and coastal and tidal municipalities to minimize risk and increase resilience.

Explore this story map to discover programs, projects, plans, and initiatives working on flooding/SLR preparedness and mitigation in Oregon. 

Resilient Rhody is about actions we can take to protect our infrastructure and our natural resources, strengthen our economy, preserve the health of our environment, and keep Rhode Islanders safe. It’s also about strengthening collaboration between state agencies, municipalities, and communities groups throughout Rhode Island. 

This 2018 Update to the Safeguarding California Plan, is a catalogue of ongoing actions and recommendations that protect infrastructure, communities, services, and the natural environment from climate change. 

Sea Level Wise is Virginia Beach's comprehensive program for addressing rising sea levels and recurrent flooding risks. The Adaptation Strategy outlines a proactive, long-term approach to enable the City of Virginia Beach to adapt to changing environmental conditions.