Find interactive websites, reports, mapping and other tools to help you achieve your resilience goals. To narrow down the list, use the check boxes and then scroll down to click the "Apply" button located below the list of options.
Use this resource to: Find guidance documents for historic resilience community planning, developing resilience design standards, understanding the adaptation strategies available to historic properties and more. The series of documents were written for local historic preservation commissions, owners of properties in historic districts and hazard mitigation professionals.
Hosted by: NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources
Released: 2023
Use this resource to: Review eight distinct strategies cities are using to pay for large-scale climate resilience projects, mostly to address sea level rise and flooding.
Hosted by: Innovation Network for Communities
Released: 2019
Use this resource to: Use this document to guide your use of the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit’s Steps to Resilience. The resource includes step by step instructions, fillable exercises, a pilot training course and more.
Hosted by: NOAA
Released: 2022
Use this resource to: Learn about a process for building equity into the four phases of emergency management: prevent and mitigation, preparedness and resilience building, response and relief and recovery and redevelopment.
Hosted by: NAACP
Released: 2021
Use this resource to: Access a checklist of activities that drinking water and wastewater utilities can take to prepare for, respond to and recover from power outages.
Hosted by: EPA
Released: 2019
Use this resource to: Delve into instructions for integrating nature-based solutions (NBS) into resilience planning, advice for overcoming key barriers to the use of NBS, financial mechanisms and government programs available to support NBS and case studies on successful examples. The appendix provides a checklist of considerations for the application of NBS.
Hosted by: NOAA
Released: 2022
Use this resource to: Incorporate resilience into your long-term transportation planning. The guide, which also addresses how transportation planners can measure resilience and consider equity in their decision-making, is designed for state transportation departments and metropolitan planning organizations. It includes recommendations to development resilience metrics.
Hosted by: RAND Corporation
Released: 2019
Use this resource to: Build a case for including resilience measures when developing projects and engaging decision-makers. Obtain guidance on integrating climate adaptation into urban planning. The resource includes an overview of recommended urban planning policies that can be used to adapt to climate change, including through comprehensive plans, zoning and more.
Hosted by: C40
Released: Unknown
Use this resource to: Review best practices for embedding climate risk assessments into capital improvement planning processes at the municipal and county level, as a cost-effective means of building community resilience to climate-related threats. The document was designed for Maryland’s Eastern Shore but is relevant to North Carolina.
Hosted by: University of Maryland Environmental Finance Center
Released: 2018
Use this resource to: Explore current and historical information about landslides across the region, and access resources to help you plan for and build resilience to landslide hazards.
Hosted by: NC Geological Survey
Released: Unknown
Use this resource to: Review guidance for engaging the business community in disaster preparation, offering business continuity training for small businesses, getting organized for a major incident, assessing the economic impacts of a major disaster, communicating during a crisis and more. The resource includes checklists and a list of related resources.
Hosted by: International Economic Development Council
Released: 2015
Use this resource to: Review these fact sheets on the benefits of low impact development (LID) strategies; LID construction techniques on specific slopes, soils and small spaces; how to use incentives, planning techniques and codes to facilitate LID projects and more. LID is the use of natural processes to manage stormwater and protect water quality.
Hosted by: EPA
Released: 2012
Use this resource to: Access legal and policy tools, best and emerging practices and case studies that support decision-making around managed retreat, specifically in coastal areas. The toolkit is designed to help policymakers overcome legal and policy barriers to managed retreat projects. The toolkit also includes information on how to talk about managed retreat.
Hosted by: Georgetown Climate Center
Released: Unknown
Use this resource to: Learn how climate change impacts mental health. The report is designed to provide climate communicators, planners, policymakers, public health professionals and other leaders with tools and tips to respond to the mental health impacts of climate change and bolster public engagement on climate solutions.
Hosted by: American Psychological Association; Climate for Health; ecoAmerica
Released: 2017
Use this resource to: Learn about microgrids, which are energy systems that help diversify energy supply. The site provides introductory information, explanatory videos and a map of some microgrid locations in North Carolina.
Hosted by: NC Electric Cooperatives
Released: 2020