Accelerating resiliency planning in communities across the Commonwealth
At Resilient Virginia, we update our strategic plan every 5 years. To inform the development of our 2022-2027 strategic plan, we held listening sessions in October and November of 2021 with our four key constituencies: government agencies, nonprofits, private sector companies, and educational institutions.
Our Government listening session included mostly local representatives from across the state.
This is a FEMA Region 3 Coffee Break Webinar
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Join the SE CASC for their first science seminar of 2025! This seminar will feature six newly funded projects, hosted by the project's PI and management partner(s).
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Speakers will lay out the current state of financing responses to climate change, discuss adaptation risks, and explore novel mechanisms to leverage financial systems to meet our climate goals.
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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,…
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.