From our friends at Charleston’s GREEN CONNECTION newletter…
Southeast Coastal Community Learning Webinar Series
The Nature Conservancy through support by a grant from NOAA and US Fish and Wildlife
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Intended Audience: Anyone engaged in community resilience, planning, conservation, hazard mitigation, emergency management from the public or private sectors.
Click here to register and for more information.
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Webinar 2: Opportunities to Address Flood Risk Using Natural Infrastructure
January 31, 2017 (2:00 – 3:30 PM)
- Increase understanding of the term ‘green infrastructure’
- Introduce resources and tools that can be used to map current and future coastal habitat
- Share examples from communities that have incorporated habitat data and green infrastructure concepts into coastal decision-making activities (ex: restoration planning).
- Re-visit coastal resilience community work plan template
Webinar 3: Identifying and Prioritizing Nature Based Solutions for Community Resilience February 14, 2017 (2:00 – 3:30 PM)
- Hear directly from communities that have built and used online tools to help meet local priorities, including ecosystem service valuation, community rating systems, and living shoreline potential
- Discuss key issues facing southeast communities with resource and tool experts to identify relationships with existing resources and potential for new applications
- Prepare for the in-person workshop and learning exchange
- Check on progress of coastal resilience community work plan template
