3. Modulate Excess
Resources to help inform and execute climate change adaptation in the built environment. Establish barriers against extreme, climate-driven forces including excess heat, rain, wind, and wildfire.
3.0 Advocate
Select a state to learn about its most prevalent climate impacts. Climate Nexus provides strategic communications services and products to drive substantive and lasting change on climate, energy, and water issues.
SOURCE: Climate Nexus
3.1 Limit Exposure to Coastal Storms
This online visualization tool creates a collection of user-defined maps that show the people, places, and natural resources exposed to coastal flooding. The maps can be saved, downloaded, or shared to communicate flood exposure and potential impacts. In addition, the tool provides guidance for using these maps to engage community members and stakeholders.
SOURCE: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
This interactive map shows areas threatened by sea level rise and coastal flooding. It combines the most advanced global model of coastal elevations with the latest projections for future flood levels.
SOURCE: Climate Central
A risk assessment for every propoerty in the US. Access detailed reports about past, present, and future risks as well as high-level solutions to help mitigate risk. Paywalled. Flood, fire, heat, air, and wind models. First Street provides property-level data for flooding, wildfire, hurricane wind, extreme heat and poor air quality risk today and in thirty years.
SOURCE: First Street Foundation
This interactive tool allows individuals to examine future climate conditions at mid- and end-of-century for a range of climate perils.
SOURCE: Argonne National Laboratory
This toolkit uses open-source, peer reviewed data to identify coastal and riverine flood risks, and analyze the costs and benefits of investing in flood protection.
SOURCE: Aqueduct and World Resources Institute
The FEMA Flood Map Service Center (MSC) is the official public source for flood hazard information produced in support of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Use the MSC to find your official flood map, access a range of other flood hazard products, and take advantage of tools for better understanding flood risk.
SOURCE: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Visualize how climate change could affect places you care about. Maps temperature, precipitation, dryness, climate zones.
SOURCE: Probable Futures
This book introduces design responses to sea-level rise, drawing from examples around the globe, arguing for approaches that are integrated with the public realm, nature-based, and sensitive to local conditions and the community. It includes a graphic catalogue of best-practices or resilience strategies. These strategies are organized into four categories: hard protect, soft protect, store, and retreat. The benefits and challenges of each strategy are outlined and highlighted by a case study showing where that strategy has been applied.
SOURCE: Stefan Al
This volume explores design strategeis for helping cities adapt to climate change and contextualizes them through broader economic and policy frameworks.
SOURCE: Carolyn Kousky, Billy Fleming, Alan Berger, Jeff Goodell
OVERVIEW: provides comprehensive and user-friendly guidance for urban designers and planners on how to manage flood risk in urban areas.
SOURCE: Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), The World Bank
The fourth part of this series, Primer Four focuses on options for response to rising waters, ranging from persisting in place to managed retreat.
SOURCE: Colleen S. L. Mercer Clarke, Alexander J. Clarke
3.2 Limit Exposure to Wildfire
A risk assessment for every propoerty in the US. Access detailed reports about past, present, and future risks as well as high-level solutions to help mitigate risk. Paywalled. Flood, fire, heat, air, and wind models. First Street provides property-level data for flooding, wildfire, hurricane wind, extreme heat and poor air quality risk today and in thirty years.
SOURCE: First Street Foundation
This interactive tool allows individuals to examine future climate conditions at mid- and end-of-century for a range of climate perils.
SOURCE: Argonne National Laboratory
Visualize how climate change could affect places you care about. Maps temperature, precipitation, dryness, climate zones.
SOURCE: Probable Futures
A graphic guide to wildfire-adaptive design for landscape architects, planners, and urban designers
SOURCE: XL Lab at SWA
OVERVIEW: This publication is designed to help property owners minimize the risks of structure loss from wildfire.
SOURCE: US Forest Service
A compilation of fire performance ratings of residential landscape plants
SOURCE: University of California Forest Products Laboratory
3.3 Limit Exposure to Flash Floods
This desktop application estimates the annual amount of rainwater and frequency of runoff from a specific site using green infrastructure as low impact development controls.
SOURCE: US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
A risk assessment for every propoerty in the US. Access detailed reports about past, present, and future risks as well as high-level solutions to help mitigate risk. Paywalled. Flood, fire, heat, air, and wind models. First Street provides property-level data for flooding, wildfire, hurricane wind, extreme heat and poor air quality risk today and in thirty years.
SOURCE: First Street Foundation
This interactive tool allows individuals to examine future climate conditions at mid- and end-of-century for a range of climate perils.
SOURCE: Argonne National Laboratory
This toolkit uses open-source, peer reviewed data to identify coastal and riverine flood risks, and analyze the costs and benefits of investing in flood protection.
SOURCE: Aqueduct and World Resources Institute
The FEMA Flood Map Service Center (MSC) is the official public source for flood hazard information produced in support of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Use the MSC to find your official flood map, access a range of other flood hazard products, and take advantage of tools for better understanding flood risk.
SOURCE: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Visualize how climate change could affect places you care about. Maps temperature, precipitation, dryness, climate zones.
SOURCE: Probable Futures
This Microsoft Excel-based calculator is designed to help landscape and construction companies estimate the cost of using environmentally beneficial compost filter berms or compost filter socks for erosion control, rather than conventional silt fences.
SOURCE: US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
OVERVIEW: provides comprehensive and user-friendly guidance for urban designers and planners on how to manage flood risk in urban areas.
SOURCE: Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), The World Bank
The fourth part of this series, Primer Four focuses on options for response to rising waters, ranging from persisting in place to managed retreat.
SOURCE: Colleen S. L. Mercer Clarke, Alexander J. Clarke
The Urban Street Stormwater Guide provides cities with national best practices for sustainable stormwater management in the public right-of-way, including core principles about the purpose of streets, strategies for building inter-departmental partnerships around sustainable infrastructure, technical design details for siting and building bioretention facilities, and a visual language for communicating the benefits of such projects. The guide sheds light on effective policy and programmatic approaches to starting and scaling up green infrastructure, provides insight on innovative street design strategies, and proposes a framework for measuring performance of streets comprehensively.
SOURCE: National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO)
3.4 Limit Exposure to Excess Heat
A risk assessment for every propoerty in the US. Access detailed reports about past, present, and future risks as well as high-level solutions to help mitigate risk. Paywalled. Flood, fire, heat, air, and wind models. First Street provides property-level data for flooding, wildfire, hurricane wind, extreme heat and poor air quality risk today and in thirty years.
SOURCE: First Street Foundation
This interactive tool allows individuals to examine future climate conditions at mid- and end-of-century for a range of climate perils.
SOURCE: Argonne National Laboratory
Visualize how climate change could affect places you care about. Maps temperature, precipitation, dryness, climate zones.
SOURCE: Probable Futures
A compilation of information and applied solutions for reducing the urban heat island withlandscape materials
SOURCE: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Heat Island Group
A review of peer-reviewed literature on natural and nature-based solutions for mitigating extreme heat
SOURCE: Daniella Hirchfeld, Amy Guenther