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Materials to Get You Started

Just getting started with your adaptation planning?  Below is a helpful list of seminal resources, expert organizations, assessments and sample plans below for your use. Click the tabs below to view materials by sector.

Leading Organizations in the Coastal Sector

  • Coastal States Organization (CSO)

    The Coastal States Organization (CSO) is a consortium of the nation's thirty-five coastal states that represents these states on national legislative and policy issues. Working with Congress, CSO works to ensure that coastal states'...

  • NOAA Coastal Services Center (CSC)

    The NOAA Coastal Services Center (CSC) works with various branches of NOAA and other federal agencies to bring information, services, technology and management strategies to the nation's coastal resource managers.

    The CSC helps...

  • National Estuarine Research Reserve System

    The National Estuarine Research Reserve System is a federal-state partnership. The federal government provides funding and administers the system, but the sites are managed on a day to day basis by state agencies, universities and other local...

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Exemplary Coastal Resources

  • Coastal Resilience Program

    A program from The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Coastal Resilience is dedicated to providing information to communities, planners, businesses and policy makers to help them integrate sea-level rise and coastal hazards into their decision-making,...

  • Digital Coast

    The Digital Coast is a collaboration of organizations committed to providing data and information, tools, and training resources to help address timely coastal issues, including land use, coastal conservation, hazards, marine spatial planning,...

  • Adaptation Tool Kit: Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Land Use
    October 31, 2011

    The Adaptation Tool Kit explores 18 different land-use tools that can be used to preemptively respond to the threats posed by sea-level rise to both public and private coastal development and infrastructure, and strives to assist governments in...

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