Resources
Below is a collection of tools and resources that can be useful for various aspects of a community’s risk assessment. Most of these tools and resources are briefly introduced during the Roadmap for Adapting to Coastal Risk training. This page offers a platform for users to quickly access each product. We hope to add links to this page as we become aware of additional useful tools and resources. Please help us out and pass along information about any product that you think should be added to this page. E-mail us at csc.roadmap@noaa.gov.
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Web-Based Training Materials
These materials are helpful when taking the Roadmap Web-based training.
Sea Level Rise in Connecticut
Coastal residents discuss rising sea level and its impacts on their community.
Source: Carolyn Moreau – www.carolynmoreau.com
GreenSeams
This innovative flood management program uses nature to protect downstream neighbors and rivers and lakes.
Source: The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) GreenSeams Program – www.mmsd.com
Training Presentation
The presentation delivered during the Roadmap Web-based training.
Getting Started
Use this information to define community goals and objectives and highlight priority issues and drivers for consideration throughout the assessment.
Geospatial Data Checklist
A checklist of spatial data sets that can be used to create assessment maps.
Potential Participant Checklist
A list of organizations and agencies that should be considered when reaching out to stakeholders.
Storyboards and Photos
Pictures from previous assessments conducted using the Roadmap process.
Example Assessment Maps
A selection of assessment maps from Miami-Dade County, Florida.
Stakeholder Engagement Strategies for Participatory Mapping
This publication provides some simple strategies for facilitators leading a participatory mapping process. While there are many aspects of participatory mapping, this publication focuses primarily on stakeholder involvement.
Introduction to Stakeholder Participation
This publication discusses some of the most important considerations and offers a guide for increasing stakeholder participation.
Hazards Profile
Use these resources to explore relevant hazards, climate trends, and potential impacts as a starting point in assessing community vulnerabilities.
Spatial Hazard Events and Losses Database for the United States (SHELDUS)
SHELDUS is a county-level hazard data set for the U.S. for 18 different natural hazard events types, such as thunderstorms, hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and tornados. Ready-made maps and graphics available for each state.
FEMA Website
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) website provides links to trainings, grants, map services, and many other valuable services.
Sea Lake and Overland Surges from Hurricanes (SLOSH) Model
The Sea, Lake and Overland Surges from Hurricanes (SLOSH) model is a computerized numerical model developed by the National Weather Service (NWS) to estimate storm surge heights resulting from hurricanes.
Coastal Inundation Mapping Guidebook
Outlines process of creating inundation maps.
Coastal Inundation Mapping Training
This two-day instructor-led course offers a combination of lectures and hands-on exercises to give students a better understanding of coastal inundation issues and mapping methods using a geographic information system (GIS).
Sea Level Trends (NOAA)
Changes in mean sea level (MSL), either a sea level rise or sea level fall, have been computed at 128 long-term water level stations using a minimum span of 30 years of observations at each location.
U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) Regional Climate Information
Regional information about the implications of climate change on various aspects of society and the economy
Coastal Climate Adaptation Resources
This site provides a community of practice for sharing and accessing coastal climate adaptation resources.
Miami-Dade Case Study
Miami-Dade officials are using climate change planning as an opportunity to identify and implement enhanced mitigation and adaptation options that will allow the county to become a more sustainable, livable community.
Societal Profile
Use these resources to help evaluate strengths and vulnerabilities of the local population.
Social Vulnerability Index
The Social Vulnerability Index (SOVI) measures the social vulnerability of U.S. counties to environmental hazards.
Flood Exposure Snapshot
The Flood Exposure Snapshot tool provides local officials with a quick look at a county’s demographics, infrastructure, and environment within the flood zone.
Mapping Socio-Economic Variables Using 2000 Census Data
Instructs users on how to create social and economic spatial data using U.S. Census data.
Census Data Link
Your source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data
Infrastructure Profile
Use these resources to help identify strengths and vulnerabilities of the built environment.
FEMA Stay Dry (flood zone data in Google Earth)
The Stay Dry utility allows you to use Google Earth to view basic flood hazard information from FEMA’s National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL) for a community or an address.
FEMA NFHL WMS
FEMA provides access to the National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL) through this Web map service (WMS) for geographic information system (GIS) users.
HAZUS-MH
The Hazards U.S. Multi-Hazard (HAZUS-MH) is a nationally applicable standardized method that estimates potential losses from earthquakes, hurricane winds, and floods.
American Planning Association (APA) Newsletter: Zoning Practice – Practice Safe Growth Audits
The October issue of Zoning Practice examines the need for communities to practice safe growth audits to prevent future growth conflicts.
American Planning Association (APA) Newsletter: Zoning Practice – Practice Resilience
The January issue of Zoning Practice examines smart growth principles that can support resilience to coastal hazards.
Cape Cod Case Study
In a landmark 2005 case, the town of Chatham, Massachusetts, successfully prevented the construction of new homes in a floodplain. See why the highest court in Massachusetts ruled in favor of preventing residential or other high-risk development in hazardous areas.
No Adverse Impact: A Common Sense Strategy for Floodplain Management
No Adverse Impact as outlined by the Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM) provides a new and effective coastal management philosophy, and also identifies its legal underpinnings.
Ecosystem Profile
Use these resources to identify the strengths and vulnerabilities of natural resources.
Conserving Coastal Wetlands for Sea Level Rise Adaptation
Get data, tools, and information to identify wetland and community vulnerabilities and prioritize wetland conservation efforts.
Introducing Green Infrastructure for Coastal Resilience Training
Learn green infrastructure concepts that support coastal resilience.
GIS Tools for Strategic Conservation Planning Training
Learn green infrastructure concepts to help planners communicate and integrate natural resource conservation into planning efforts that support coastal community resilience.
Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP) Land Cover Change Atlas and Data Sheets
Interactive map for viewing land cover and land cover change. Data sheets and raw data available for download.
CanVis Simulation Tool
CanVis is a visualization program used to “see” potential impacts from coastal development or sea level rise.
Sea Level Rise Planning Maps
A multi-year project by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency worked with 130 counties to create maps showing which lands would be protected given existing policies, to hopefully start the dialogue on which lands should be protected.
Miami-Dade County Environmentally Endangered Lands Program
Miami-Dade’s Environmentally Endangered Lands (EEL) program conserves and protects valuable ecosystems. The program and its partners have brought more than 18,350 acres of environmentally endangered lands into public ownership since 1990.
Scanning the Conservation Horizon: A Guide to Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment
This guidance document focuses on the key components of vulnerability—sensitivity and exposure—and reviews best practices for conducting assessments focusing on species, habitats, or ecosystems.
Taking Action
Use these resources to explore opportunities to reduce risk.
Coastal Zone Enhancement Grants (Section 309)
The federal Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA), in Section 309, provides special funding to assist states enrolled in the national program to develop or implement changes to their federally approved state Coastal Zone Management Programs.
Community Assistance Program, State Support Services Element (CAP-SSSE)
Provides funding to states to provide technical assistance to communities in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and to evaluate community performance in implementing NFIP floodplain management activities.
Flood Mitigation Assistance Program
Provides funding to assist states and communities in implementing measures to reduce or eliminate the long-term risk of flood damage to buildings, manufactured homes, and other structures insurable under the NFIP.
Pre-Disaster Mitigation Program
Provides funds for hazard mitigation planning and the implementation of mitigation projects prior to a disaster event.
Repetitive Flood Claims Program
Provides funding to States and communities to reduce or eliminate the long-term risk of flood damage to structures insured under the NFIP that have had one or more claims for flood damages, and that cannot meet the requirements of the Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) program for either cost share or capacity to manage the activities.
Severe Repetitive Loss Program
The Severe Repetitive Loss (SRL) grant program provides funding to reduce or eliminate the long-term risk of flood damage to severe repetitive loss (SRL) structures insured under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).
Other Funding Opportunities
Information about additional grants and grant programs. Provides links to funding opportunities in two ways: by category and by region.
