Enhancing Community Resilience by Linking Conservation and Restoration with Coastal Hazards Risk Reduction via the FEMA Community Rating System

Description: TNC works to conserve the lands and water on which life depends. With this award, TNC and its partners plan to work with three Gulf of Mexico communities to develop tools that can help them identify and select projects that restore habitats, enhance coastal resilience, and earn FEMA community rating system points that reduce flood insurance rates. TNC and its partners will share case studies and lessons learned from this process via GOMA’s Coastal Resilience Team and TNC’s Coastal Resilience Network. They anticipate that this project will increase communities’ capacity to make strategic investments in natural solutions that help protect them from storm and flood impacts. This work could benefit coastal communities in the Gulf of Mexico and across the United States.

Funding Cycle: Capacity Building 1
Funding Organization: National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine: Gulf Research Program

Community Incentives for Nature-Based Flood Solutions: A Guide to FEMA’s Community Rating System for Conservation Practitioners

Community Incentives for Nature-Based Flood Solutions

CRS Explorer App on the Coastal Resilience Decision Support Tool