Publications
Document Type
Report
Publication Date
7-1-2012
Abstract
In summer 2011 the US EPA’s Climate Ready Estuaries program awarded funds to the Casco Bay Estuary Partnership (CBEP) in Portland, Maine, and the Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership (PREP) in coastal New Hampshire, to further develop and use COAST (Coastal Adaptation to Sea level rise Tool) in their sea level rise adaptation planning processes. The New England Environmental Finance Center worked with municipal staff, elected officials, and other stakeholders to select specific locations, vulnerable assets, and adaptation actions to model using COAST. The EFC then collected the appropriate base data layers, ran the COAST simulations, and provided visual, numeric, and presentation-based products in support of the planning processes underway in both locations. These products helped galvanize support for the adaptation planning efforts. Through facilitated meetings they also led to stakeholders identifying specific action steps and begin to determine how to implement them.
Recommended Citation
Merrill S, Kirshen P, Yakovleff D, et al. COAST in Action: 2012 Projects From New Hampshire and Maine. [Series Report #12-05]. Portland, ME: University of Southern Maine, Muskie School of Public Service, New England Environmental Finance Center.
Category
Climate Change, Sea Level Rise
Location
Casco Bay, Casco Bay watershed, Hampton, Seabrook
Comments
This work was funded by the US EPA Climate Ready Estuaries program.