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Coastal planners Regulatory agencies Natural resource agencies Protected area managers

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. Serving state and local organizations. Coastal planners Regulatory agencies Natural resource agencies

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Coastal planners Regulatory agencies Natural resource agencies Protected area managers

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  1. NOAA Coastal Services CenterProviding state and local organizations with the skills, tools, and data needed to manage the nation’s coastal resources and communities.

  2. Serving state and local organizations • Coastal planners • Regulatory agencies • Natural resource agencies • Protected area managers • Hazards planners • Estuarine reserves • Floodplain managers • Conservation organizations

  3. Sample Products and Services Improving coastal management by providing new skills and information • Training • Coastal Services magazine • Coastal Zone conference • GeoTools conference • Gulf of Mexico Alliance • Land Trust partnerships • Visualizations

  4. Sample Products and Services Improving coastal management by providing new tools • Digital Coast • Marine spatial planning • Flood mapping products • Hazard assessment tools • Impervious surface analysis • Nonpoint-source pollution and erosion comparison tool

  5. Sample Products and Services Improving coastal management by providing new data • Land cover • Topographic and bathymetric • Benthic habitat mapping • Social science

  6. Strategic Emphases • 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.

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. Risk-Wise Behavior Targeted Products & Activities • Risk Perception & Behavior Studies • Risk Communication & Behavior Resources • Risk-Based Decision-Making, Motivators, Incentives

  10. Vulnerability andResilience Assessment • Risk, vulnerability, resilience assessment methods & tools • Participatory processes & tools • Contextual applications & resources – land use, conservation, climate adaptation, hazard mitigation, floodplain management

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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?

  14. 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.

  15. 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?

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