hilke gmc community planning
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Chris Hilke
Climate Adaptation Program National Wildlife Federation
Community Resiliency Planning in the Great Marsh
NWF & Coastal Adaptation Planning
• Chesapeake Bay • Puget Sound • Great Lakes • Gulf Coast States
Where What
• Vulnerability Assessments • Adaptation Strategy Identification • Ecosystem Adaptation • Community Planning
September 2014
Best Practices for Climate Change Adaptation:
Spotlight on Michigan Coastal Wetlands
Engaging in the Great Marsh
NWF initiated screening-level habitat vulnerability assessment at Parker River National Wildlife Refuge (2012)
Workshop Outcomes
• Long history of restoration and conservation activity
• Significant current climate-driven impacts
• Off-refuge engagement key component to sustainable management
Community Engagement – Essex, MA
NWF – Town of Essex MOU (2013)
Deliverables • Inventory of vulnerable
community assets • Comprehensive public
engagement process • Adaptation strategy
implementation roadmap
Products • Town adaptation Task Force • Vulnerability workshop • Vulnerability discussion document • Adaptation strategy identification
workshop • Adaptation “Action” Report • Planning to Implementation workshop
Ecological Restoration and Enhancement 1. Saltmarsh & sub-aquatic vegetation restoration
2. Dune nourishment & revegetation
Assessment and Modeling 3. Hydrologic barriers assessment & prioritization
4. Hydrodynamic sediment transport & salinity modeling
5. Community Resiliency Planning
DOI Hurricane Sandy Resiliency Grants Program “Community Risk Reduction through Comprehensive Community Resiliency
Enhancement for the Great Marsh Ecosystem”
Goal: Projects that work together to comprehensively reduce risk to coastal communities and enhance the resiliency and adaptive capacity of the ecological systems those communities depend upon.
Community Resiliency Planning
Great Marsh Target Communities • Essex • Salisbury • Rowley • Ipswich • Newbury • Newburyport
NWF approach to community planning developed over time & experience
• Bottom up • Community-specific • Facilitated • Comprehensive (gray/green
infrastructure)
Community Resiliency Planning
Model Process 1. Community Planning Task Force 2. Identify target assets 3. Assess target vulnerabilities 4. Develop adaptation strategies 5. Categorize & prioritize 6. Initiate implementation
Coastal Community Adaptation Plan • Outlines projected change across
time/emission scenarios • Summarizes vulnerabilities of community
assets • Identifies ecosystem-oriented adaptation
strategies that reduce risk and increase resiliency
• Categorizes/prioritizes strategies based on feasibility, cost, implementation time
• Provides an implementation “roadmap” that identifies specific delivery mechanisms
Community Resiliency Planning
Outcome:
Community Resiliency Planning Coordinating Efforts – Expanding Analysis
1. Leveraging expertise - Horsley Witten Group Coastal Resource Management, Community Planning
2. COAST (Coastal Adaptation to Sea Level Rise Tool) - Catalysis & EPA Strategy cost-benefit analysis
3. MAST (Marsh Adaptation Strategy Tool) - Catalysis & EPA Allocating ecosystem service values
4. Socioeconomic climate vulnerability assessment - USGS