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NOAA Coastal Services Center
Providing state and local organizations with the skills, tools, and data
needed to manage the nation’s coastal resources and communities.
• Coastal planners• Regulatory agencies• Natural resource agencies• Protected area managers • Hazards planners• Estuarine reserves• Floodplain managers• Conservation organizations
Serving state and local organizations
Sample Products and Services
•Training•Coastal Services magazine•Coastal Zone conference•GeoTools conference•Gulf of Mexico Alliance•Land Trust partnerships•Visualizations
Improving coastal management by providing new skills and information
Sample Products and Services
•Digital Coast•Marine spatial planning•Flood mapping products•Hazard assessment tools•Impervious surface analysis•Nonpoint-source pollution and erosion comparison tool
Improving coastal management by providing new tools
Sample Products and Services
•Land cover•Topographic and bathymetric•Benthic habitat mapping•Social science
Improving coastal management by providing new data
Hazard Resilience:• Provides information, tools and technical support
to help communities improve their resilience.
Coastal and Ocean Planning: • Raises awareness of climate change impacts,
supports regional ocean governance, supports alternative energy development and incorporates climate change adaptation and hazards resilience into comprehensive land use planning.
Conservation:• Sustains and improves coastal and marine
habitats, and the ecosystem services that they provide, through better strategic planning and implementation.
Strategic Emphases
Hazards Data & Information
• Data & Derived Products – LIDAR, C-CAP, Topobathy
• Historic Hurricane Tracks Tool• Storm Mapping Guide and
Tutorial• Model Output Mapping
Methodology• Shoreline Change
Hazards Visualization
Hazards Visualization • Hazard Assessment Tools and
Templates• Tsunamis Hazards Information
Service• Hurricane Evacuation Zone Tool• Coastal Inundation Visualization
Tools• Flood Severity Mapping• CanVis Visualization
Risk-Wise BehaviorTargeted Products & Activities
• Risk Perception & Behavior Studies
• Risk Communication & Behavior Resources
• Risk-Based Decision-Making, Motivators, Incentives
Vulnerability andResilience Assessment
• Risk, vulnerability, resilience assessment methods & tools
• Participatory processes & tools
• Contextual applications & resources – land use, conservation, climate adaptation, hazard mitigation, floodplain management
Community Resilience Definitions
• Absorb • Buffer capacity• Ability to absorb• Magnitude of disturbance absorbed
• Recover • Recovery capacity• Speed of recovery• Level of recovery
• Adapt • Adaptive capacity• Flexibility• Growth potential
Redefining Outcomes - What is Success?“Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off.” – Phyllis Diller
• Old Model: responsive to risks - able to survive and rebuild• Success Measures =
Higher survival rates + reduced $$ needed to repeat stupidity
• New Model: resilient to risks - able to absorb impacts and adapt to change• Success Measures =
Higher rates of recovery + improved resilience to future risks
Measuring Resilience through Indicators
• Cooperative Agreements - Louisiana & Texas Pilots (UNO, TAMU, SUNY)
• Gulf of Mexico Alliance – Resilience Index
• Coastal Community Resilience (CCR) Assessment Guidebook
• Heinz Center Resilience Coasts Initiative
• Community & Regional Resilience Initiative (CARRI) Local Pilots (Charleston, Pascagoula, Memphis)
• Others?
CRI Cooperative Agreements (FY07-09)
• Define quantifiable indicators and develop methodologies, tools, and information resources for the assessment of community resilience
• Develop scientifically defensible indicators for community resilience (ecological, economic, socio-cultural and physical)
• Develop a strategy for using indicators in efforts to enhance the resilience of coastal communities.
Considerations
• What are you developing that could be most useful to our audiences and what might we need to do to help them use it?
• What have you learned in the process that our audiences might want or need to know?
• How are you planning or considering using your results in the future?