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Flood Resilience Planning: Quick Bites




Steps to resilience overview


This short video explains what resilience means and why it is important.  It then provides a very quick overview of the planning steps of the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit (link to full website provided in Tools).
Video Length: 1 Minute 42 Seconds


flood resilience guide overview


Drinking water and wastewater utilities are vulnerable to damage and service disruptions from flooding. This overview video helps small and medium utilities to become more resilient to flooding. Told from the perspective of a small drinking water utility, the video introduces a 4 step approach with easy-to-use worksheets with corresponding videos (additional links provided in the notes section on the YouTube page).  The utility is provided with the tools to examine the threat of flooding, determine impacts to utility assets, identify cost-effective mitigation options, and plan to implement such options.
Video Length: 3 Minutes 58 Seconds

FLOOD RESILIENCE PLANNING: Deep Dive




Planning for flood recovery and long term resilience

This webcast sponsored by the NYS Upstate Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA) covers the goals of a local comprehensive emergency management plan versus the All Hazard Mitigation Plan and the benefits of having a pre-event "Recovery Plan".  The conversation will narrow to samples for conducting policy and regulatory audits and land use techniques for flood resilience, including green infrastructure, riparian/coastal buffers, and floodplain management.
Video Length: 1 Hour 26 Minutes 57 Seconds
(Credit for attending live webinars only.)


FLOOD RESILIENCE PLANNING Tools



Flood Resilience Checklist

 

This Flood Resilience Checklist from the EPA helps communities begin to answer the question "Is your Community prepared for a possible flood?"

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Steps to resilience


The U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit website provides a wide variety of tools geared to help decision makers determine their vulnerability, investigate their future climate changes, and learn about what resilience strategies are being implemented across the country.
  
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Flood Resilience Strategies


Flood Resilience Strategies: List of strategies for increasing the flood resilience of communities.
  
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FLOOD RESILIENCE PLANNING Resources

 

Flood Ready: Update Your Plans


Vermont web page about integrating flood risks into multiple community planning activities includes useful tools, examples and links to other outside learning sources to help prepare for the next flood.

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Community Risk and Resiliency act (CRRA)


New York State’s Community Risk and Resiliency Act (CRRA) led to development of guidance for how governments can incorporate climate change preparedness and resilience activities into decision making and planning.

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NAI How-to guide for planning


Association of State Floodplain Managers No-Adverse Impact floodplain management guidance document that presents factors for effective planning and a range of planning tools.

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CLIMATE RESILIENCY


New York City's planning initiative implements zoning and land use strategies that reduce flood risks and support the City's vitality and resiliency through long-term adaptive planning. Short video describes ongoing resilience efforts and solicits public suggestions.

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PLANNING FOR A RESILIENT COMMUNITY WORKSHOP


This FEMA website provides handouts and instructional information for interested parties to host a 4-hour workshop on "Planning for a Resilient Community." The workshop is intended to enhance the effectiveness of community planners and officials in creating safe, resilient communities through hazard mitigation. The workshop focuses on the relationship between the impacts of hazards and community design and provides specific examples of how communities accomplish mitigation through comprehensive planning, transportation planning, zoning, and other planning mechanisms.

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MUNICIPAL LAND USE STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING FLOOD RESILIENCY


Guidance document developed by Southern Tier Central Regional Planning & Development Board,
provides ideas and resources to help local governments integrate flood hazards into planning and land use management activities.

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