Using funding from NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management, the Virginia Coastal Zone Management Program began working with individuals from county agencies who work toward protecting coastal resources. The group decided to start promoting ecotourism as a way to bring in additional revenue, rather than risking the asset be lost to development in the future.
Mackenzie Todd, a coastal resilience specialist with the North Carolina Division of Coastal Management, is leading up the North Carolina Resilient Coastal Communities Program, which focuses on facilitating community-led resilience planning and project identification. The program is providing financial grants and technical assistance to communities to support planning and implementation.
In 2019, city leaders in Fayetteville, NC, set out on an ambitious $13M Watershed Master Plan program to better understand the severity of city-wide flooding and proactively develop flood mitigation projects. Leaders understood that a comprehensive evaluation would support resiliency by providing a pool of prioritized projects for both short- and long-term implementation. This evaluation would stretch resources equitably across the city, provide opportunities to identify creative regional-scale projects, and ensure inter-governmental and cross-departmental collaborations.
The purpose of this report is to present an overview of the state of an important but shrinking resource – wetlands in North and South Carolina. The report will establish a baseline – as a basis for seeing future trends in wetlands in the Carolinas – by addressing the following questions.
Click the link below to read this Peer-to-Peer case study as published by the NOAA Office for Coastal Management.
Follow the link below to access this Peer to Peer case study as published in Digital Coast by the NOAA Office for Coastal Management.
As global climate change impacts both environmental and societal factors, coastal communities have witnessed increased attention from scientists and decision-makers due to their additional vulnerabilities. Across the eastern United States, these regions have experienced significant damage due to human development, wetland drainage, hydrologic and land-use changes, and sea level rise, along with other climate change impacts. Such factors put these areas at increased risk to climate change and other global change drivers.
Click the link below to read the Peer-to-Peer Case Study by NOAA's Digital Coast: