Coastal Community Resiliency
Because Gulf Coast communities will continue to face threats from hurricanes, erosion, and other hazards, enhancing the resilience of coastal communities is critical to the region’s long-term viability and success. Resilience is the capacity of human, natural, and physical systems to adapt and recover from change. The Coastal Community Resilience Priority Issue Team’s mission is to coordinate and enhance efforts of local, state, federal, business, and non-profit partners to assist coastal communities and ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico region in becoming more resilient in structure and function. The Team aims to help communities understand and enhance their physical, social, economic, and ecological resilience to both short and long-term events such as storms, floods, and climate change.
Long-term Alliance Partnership Goal
The bayous, sloughs, and swamps support an abundant population of the crawfish, which have become an important aquaculture venture. Photo: Paul Wallace, NRCS
Coordinate and enhance efforts of local, state, federal, business, and non-profit partners to assist coastal communities and ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico region in becoming more resilient in structure and function.
The Governor's Action Plan indentifies one associated action:
R-1: Increase the safety of Gulf communities by better understanding the risks of localized sea level rise, storm surge and subsidence
Action: Increase the Gulf States’ scientific understanding of the implications and risks of localized sea level rise, storm surge, and subsidence through development of tools that integrate these processes, such as integrated models.
36-Month Outcomes:
- Develop a prototype decision-support tool that allows Gulf resource managers to integrate critical storm surge, localized sea level rise, and subsidence information for at least one pilot area on the Gulf Coast.
- Develop a pilot Community Resiliency Index for Gulf coastal communities.
Highlights of Governors’ Action Plan Accomplishments
Click here to visit the NOAA Coastal Storms Program website.
NOAA Storm Surge Partnership Project
Click here to download a one-page overview of the project’s modeling, tools, and methodologies.
Click here to view updated descriptions of Sea Grant Resiliency Projects.
A vibrant Gulf Coast community. Photo credit: Gulf of Mexico Alliance Governors' Action Plan
New publication from Louisiana Sea Grant
Click here to download the publication “Hazard Mitigation and Land Use Planning in Coastal Louisiana: Recommendations for the Future.”
New publication from Texas Sea Grant
Click here to download the publication “The Resilient Coast: Policy frameworks for adapting The Built Environment to Climate Change and Growth in Coastal Areas of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.”
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