Funding: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
Partners: American Planning Association; Coastal States Organization; Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative; Great Lakes Sea Grant Network via Wisconsin Sea Grant.
Committee Overlap: Coastal Issues, Flood Mitigation.
Strengthening Coastal Communities' Resilience in the Great Lakes Region will build the capacity of coastal communities in the Great Lakes Region to plan for, prepare for, and adapt to extreme lake levels and associated weather and climate-related hazards. The project team will work directly with communities as they assess their vulnerabilities to projected environmental stressors related to flooding and begin to develop strategies and policies to address identified vulnerabilities with better stewardship of natural assets and protection of critical infrastructure in light of projected future conditions. Teams should leave the program with a completed vulnerability self-assessment, a set of planning scenarios, an action plan, improved hard and soft skills around coastal resilience and access to a regional community of practice. This project will continue the refresh of the Great Lakes Coastal Resilience Planning Guide.