Assessment of impacts of sea-level rise
- Inventory vulnerable natural and built resources and facilities
- Consider impacts and recommendations described in the current State Sea Level Rise Policy Guidance.
- Consider impacts of storms and extreme events
- Consider changing shorelines
- Consider trends in relative local sea level
- Consider impacts to public trust resources and values, including but not limited to public access, commerce, recreation, coastal habitats, and navigability
- Prioritize vulnerabilities to be addressed
Maps of 2030, 2050, and 2100 impacts
- FEMA flood hazard maps can be accepted if the projected timeframe is appropriate
- Refer to online mapping tool resources if the trustee does not have in-house resources needed to complete
Estimate of financial costs of sea-level rise
- Replacement or repair costs of resources and facilities that could be impacted by sea-level rise and climate change processes
- Non-market values, including recreation and ecosystem services, of public trust resources that could be impacted by climate change and sea-level rise processes
- See Center for the Blue Economy library or Duke Marine Ecosystem Services Partnership
- Consider costs of 2030, 2050, and 2100 high sea-level rise projection with a 100-year storm
- Include anticipated costs of adaptation/mitigation measures, and potential benefits of such strategies and structures
Description of how trustee proposes to protect and preserve resources and structures that would be impacted by sea-level rise
- Describe proposed mitigation/adaptation measures, and how vulnerabilities will be addressed
- Describe the timeframe of the implementation of such measures
- Describe plans to monitor impacts of sea-level rise and climate change, as well as the effectiveness of mitigation/adaptation measures
- Describe any regional partnerships the trustee is a party to or intending to form that would address sea-level rise and climate change vulnerability or increase resiliency