The Roadmap Approach
- Getting Started
Define community goals, build the team, identify priority issues, and prepare for the assessment - Hazards Profile
Explore relevant hazards and climate trends as a starting point for community vulnerabilities - Societal Profile
Evaluate strengths and vulnerabilities of the local population - Infrastructure Profile
Identify the strengths and vulnerabilities of the built environment - Ecosystem Profile
Consider the strengths and vulnerabilities of important natural resources - Risk-Wise Strategies
Explore opportunities and challenges for risk reduction through education, planning, and regulatory processes
Approach - Roadmap for Adapting to Coastal Risk
Approach
How are communities using the Roadmap?
To learn more about how communities are using the Roadmap and other approaches to become more resilient to hazards, visit the Discover section.
For more information on technical assistance, e-mail us at csc.roadmap@noaa.gov.
Community planning provides an opportunity to address hazards and climate change vulnerabilities, since residents and other stakeholders are already creating or updating policies and plans that will guide community development. Decisions are being made on land use, government services, community character, and natural resource protection. Hazards are connected to all these sectors and impact their operations and budgets.
The Roadmap for Adapting to Coastal Risk approach focuses a hazards and climate lens on existing issues such as water availability, stormwater management and runoff, and infrastructure maintenance and placement. This means identifying how hazards and climate change can intensify these issues. The approach incorporates relevant hazards and climate data and information into ongoing assessment and planning processes. This participatory assessment process is designed to
- Engage key staff members and stakeholders in a comprehensive, yet rapid, assessment of local vulnerabilities;
- Use existing information resources to evaluate potential hazard and climate impacts;
- Collaborate across disciplines to better understand and plan for impacts; and
- Identify opportunities for improving resilience to current and future hazard risks.
The Roadmap approach emphasizes the value of collaboration, local knowledge, spatial data, and multimedia materials (photos, charts, and newspaper articles) in enabling people to share their concerns and priorities about the impacts of hazard and climate change on their community.