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Linking Coastal Adaption Portfolios to Salt Marsh Resilience and Ecosystem Service Values
This project is an international and interdisciplinary collaboration led by Marsh Institute researchers, with collaborators at the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences and Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Tidal marshes are one of the most common natural features used for coastal adaptation (protecting the coast from flooding and storms), and are frequently promoted for their…
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Coastal Hazards and Northeast Housing Values: Comparative Implications for Climate Change Adaptation and Community Resilience
Chief among the information needed to enhance coastal hazard adaptation are assessments of economic outcomes and policy implications. This project will combine coastal hazards, property value and other data with economic models to answer three questions central to Northeast coastal adaptation: (1) How do property values and tax bases in Northeast communities respond to coastal…
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Drought Early Warning and Response in Hawaii – Expanding and Enhancing Stakeholder-Driven Drought Products and Services
The National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) has worked collaboratively to build an important foundation for understanding drought in Hawai‘I and U.S.-Affiliated Pacific Islands (USAPI). The Pacific Drought Knowledge Exchange (PDKE) collaborative: (i) brings together relevant agencies and stakeholders for meaningful engagement and collaborations in the Pacific; (ii) explores knowledge co-production with land stewards and…
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Evaluating Social, Economic and Environmental Outcomes of Community-Based Coastal Adaptation Engagements: An Integrated Economics and Machine-Learning Framework
Coastal communities face compound hazards due to elements such as sea-level rise, increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather, flooding, changing morphology, heat, drought, and human development. Amidst these challenges, public and private organizations have developed public engagement and capacity-building programs to help support adaptation planning and implementation that meet community goals, support social welfare…
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