Accelerating resiliency planning in communities across the Commonwealth
The Nature Conservancy produced this guide in 2015 in order to provide a comprehensive framework on incorporating ecosystem valuation into restoration projects. The Guide covers advantages to ecosystem valuation as well as guidance with regards to stakeholder engagement, goal setting, selecting metrics, and study design.
Join Virginia Forage and Grassland Council (VFGC) for an in-depth look making, buying, and using quality hay and baleage. Featured speakers include Chris Teutsch, Extension forage specialist with University of Kentucky, and Jessica Williamson,…
The Southeast Climate monthly webinar series is held on the 4th Tuesday of each month at 10:00 am ET. This series is hosted by the Southeast Regional Climate Center (SERCC), the National Integrated Drought Information…
This exclusive online event will bring together two leading experts a climate scientist, and a climate psychologist to explore the critical climate issues that will shape our future.
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Building on recommendations from the consensus report, Laying the Foundation for New and Advanced Nuclear Reactors in the United States, this workshop aims to facilitate in-depth discussions among policymakers, regulators, community experts, and technical…
Resilient Virginia has issued an RFP for a part-time Community Engagement Consultant for work in Lynchburg, Va.
US EPA maintains a website that focuses on essential information for coastal communities planning for the effects of climate change.
EcoAdapt conducted a survey with the Strong, Prosperous, and Resilient Communities Challenge to determine if and how people working to address displacement pressures are considering the effects of climate change. This survey is part of a broader project in collaboration with the Urban Displacement Project to better understand the intersections between climate change and displacement pressures.
Managed retreat is the coordinated process of voluntarily and equitably relocating people, structures, and infrastructure away from vulnerable coastal areas in response to episodic or chronic threats to facilitate the transition of individual people, communities, and ecosystems (both species and habitats) inland.
The Georgetown Climate Center maintains the Equitable Adaptation Legal & Policy Toolkit, which highlights best and emerging practice examples of how cities are addressing disproportionate socioeconomic risk to climate impacts and engaging overburdened communities.