by Coastal Resilience | Oct 9, 2016 | New York
Contributed by Stu Gruskin, Chief Conservation and External Affairs Officer for The Nature Conservancy in New York As we close in on the two year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, this is a good time to ask ourselves whether we are better prepared today than we were...
by Coastal Resilience | Oct 9, 2016 | New Jersey
How to Place a Value on Our Natural Assets A new guidebook “A Guide For Incorporating Ecosystem Service Valuation Into Coastal Restoration Projects” is now available to the public and targets practitioners, natural resource managers and coastal restoration managers in...
by Coastal Resilience | Oct 9, 2016 | New Jersey
Living Shorelines Grants & Technical Assistance Program New Jersey’s shorelines are being challenged by storms, sea level rise and a changing climate. The Nature Conservancy is helping waterfront communities, like yours, leverage nature to address flooding,...
by Coastal Resilience | Oct 9, 2016 | New Jersey
The Restoration Explorer is a web based mapping tool that allows communities and their partners to examine what types of living shorelines are most appropriate for a particular location. Utilizing the Restoration Explorer during the initial steps of developing a...
by Coastal Resilience | Oct 7, 2016 | Gulf of Mexico
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has published its Gulf Coast Vulnerability Assessment (GCVA) for 2015, a comprehensive report that evaluates the effects of climate change, sea level rise and urbanization on four Gulf Coast ecosystems and 11 species that depend on...
