EBC Ocean & Coastal Resources Program: Coastal Resiliency and Marine Spatial Planning
Details
Date: April 29, 2015
Venue
Environmental Business Council of New England
Date: April 29, 2015
Environmental Business Council of New England
Around the world, coastal towns and cities are seeking ways to adapt to the imminent threats associated with climate change, particularly sea level rise and increasing storm activity. These forces will cause flooding and inundation of shoreline areas, posing a threat to human safety, infrastructure such as buildings and roads, natural habitats, species, and ecosystems. In the United States, governments – primarily municipalities – have much of the responsibility for adapting to climate change using local scale land-use zoning and other planning, management, and regulatory mechanisms. Coastal resilience is an ecosystem-based coastal and marine spatial planning framework that utilizes sea level rise, storm surge, ecological, and socioeconomic spatial information to identify and implement ecosystem-based adaptation strategies. Attendees will acquire a deeper understanding of vulnerability from coastal hazards, as well as emerging methodologies and practices focused on reducing risk and determining the value of nature-based solutions through practical approaches to ocean and coastal spatial decision-making.
Speakers from private industry, government, and major asset stakeholders will address topics including:
Program Co-Chairs
Speakers
The available presentations from the EBC Ocean & Coastal Resources Program: Coastal Resiliency and Marine Spatial Planning, completed on April 29, 2015, can be viewed below. Presentations are not available for download.
Environmental Business Council of New England
375 Harvard Street, Suite 2
Brookline,
MA
02446
United States