CoastalResilience

Future Scenarios Map

Despite a growing awareness of the reality of sea level rise and its associated hazards, tools for visualizing these impacts and identifying alternative scenarios for confronting them are sorely needed. Consequently it is difficult to integrate sea level rise and coastal hazard risk into decision-making regarding natural resource protection and land use management.

The Coastal Resilience mapping tool is a unique interactive decision support tool that explores future flooding scenarios caused by sea level rise and storm surge for the south shore of Long Island, New York. The scenarios are all developed from widely accepted climate and hazard models and the information is presented without hype or hyperbole in an easy to use framework. The web mapping tool provides three types of information to inform decision-making. First, it allows users to visualize the issue by exploring flooding scenarios resulting from sea level rise and storm surge. Second, users can see what’s at risk by viewing the interaction of the threat with ecological and socioeconomic resources. Finally, Coastal Resilience helps users identify the solutions that meet the joint objectives of ecosystem protection and community resilience.

The aim of this web mapping tool is to provide communities with easy access to information for their planning, zoning, acquisition and permitting decisions. The information is intended to inform decisions in coastal development and conservation and to maximize opportunities to meet multiple management objectives while minimizing adverse impacts to human and natural communities.

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