Presentation - Adapting to a changing climate in the management of coastal zones meeting, Enhancing Climate Resilience through the National Coastal zone management program - Laura Petes (USA)

1. National Coastal Zone Management Program
Enhancing Climate Resilience
Through the National Coastal Zone
Management Program
Laura Petes, Ph.D.
Manager, Communities Program
NOAA Office for Coastal Management

2. National Coastal Zone Management Program
22 events > $1 billion; total cost $95 billion

3. National Coastal Zone Management Program
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Office for Coastal Management
• National Coastal Zone Management Program
• National Estuarine Research Reserve System
• Coral Reef Conservation Program
• Digital Coast

4. National Coastal Zone Management Program
National Coastal Zone Management Program
• Created by Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA), 1972
• “The Congress finds and declares that it is the national policy . . .
to preserve, protect, develop, and where possible, to restore or
enhance, the resources of the Nation's coastal zone for this and
succeeding generations . . .”

5. National Coastal Zone Management Program
Coastal Management Programs
coast.noaa.gov/czm

6. National Coastal Zone Management Program
CZMA Goals
• Protecting natural resources
• Managing development in high-hazard areas
• Giving development priority to coastal-dependent uses
• Providing public access for recreation
• Improving coastal water quality
• Coordinating state and federal actions
• Involving the public
State-Federal partnership
NOAA provides implementation grants to the states
National Coastal Zone Management Program

7. National Coastal Zone Management Program
Coastal Zone Enhancement Program
(CZMA Section 309)
• Provides incentives to enhance state programs in nine areas
• Five-year assessments and strategies to guide planning and
program changes
• Programs just completed their 2021-2025 309s; hazards was
consistently ranked as a high priority, and all but one program
developed a hazards strategy
Wetlands Cumulative and Secondary Impacts
Coastal Hazards Ocean and Great Lakes Resources
Public Access Energy and Government Facility Siting
Marine Debris Special Area Management Planning
Aquaculture

8. National Coastal Zone Management Program
Examples of Integrating Climate
• Rhode Island developed decision-support tool (STORMTOOLS) to
help residents understand coastal risk
• San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission
updated the Bay Plan to require that larger shoreline projects be
designed to cope with sea-level rise
• Puerto Rico restored corals as part of Hurricane Maria recovery
• New Jersey worked on principles for meaningful inclusion of
socially vulnerable populations in climate resilience planning
• Great Lakes states collaborated to identify erosion hotspots
• Maryland developed living-shoreline policies and incentives

9. National Coastal Zone Management Program
National Coastal Resilience Fund
• Partnership created in 2018 between NOAA and National Fish
and Wildlife Foundation; other partners have joined.
• Competitive grants program that supports projects that both
enhance coastal community resilience and provide habitat
benefits for fish and wildlife.
• 2018: $29M in grants across 22 states and territories
• 2019: $30M in grants across 23 states and territories
• 2020: $37M in grants across 25 states and territories
Grants support capacity building and planning, site
assessment, project design, and implementation
nfwf.org/coastalresilience

10. National Coastal Zone Management Program
Digital Coast
Enabling Platform and Partnership
coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast

11. National Coastal Zone Management Program
Sea Level Rise Viewer
https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/
• Examine local sea level
rise projections
• Integrates data on:
– Mapping confidence
– Marsh migration
– High tide flooding
– Socioeconomic
impacts

12. National Coastal Zone Management Program
Natural Infrastructure Resources
coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/topics/green-infrastructure.html

13. National Coastal Zone Management Program
Challenges and Opportunities
• Understanding and accommodating migration of
species, habitats, ecosystems
• Community-led managed relocation
• Addressing socioeconomic vulnerability and equity
considerations as part of climate resilience
• Integrating resilience into recovery efforts
• Mainstreaming resilience into actions (e.g., widening
or replacing tidal culverts, stormwater management)

14. National Coastal Zone Management Program
Questions?
Laura.Petes@noaa.gov
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