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Identifying these hazards and preparing for them allows managers of coastal communities to take proactive measures that not only can reduce loss of life, but also decrease economic loss. Natural hazard mitigation saves $6 on average for every $1 spent on federal mitigation grants, according to an analysis by the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS). NIBS reports: "In most coastal locations subject to hurricane surge, it can be cost-effective to build the first floor up to 10 feet above base flood elevation, in some places saving more than $12 per $1 of added cost.鈥�

Informed Decisions

In coastal areas, informed and quick decisions are essential to both minimizing loss from hazards and also prepare for a variety of sea level rise scenarios and more severe events, with lives and infrastructures at stake. 听Decision-makers in coastal communities may require unique solutions to face the hazards specific to their region.

澳门玄机图 supports local business owners, governmental organizations, regional managers and planners and decision-makers to assess the risks and develop cost-effective solutions. To empower decision-makers, 澳门玄机图 leverages state-of-the-art scientific approaches from global to local scales, and assesses the risk, monitors the environmental condition, and evaluates adaptation and mitigation needs and priorities to build resilience, and develop adaptive solutions.

In addition to providing technical expertise and pragmatic and scientific solutions, 澳门玄机图 supports decision-makers by developing user-friendly tools and creating custom data portals. The goal is to synthesize and analyse data more quickly and easily and make public data more accessible. For example, 澳门玄机图 developed the which supports federal, state and tribal agencies as they plan for coastal resilience. In collaboration with The Northeast Regional Ocean Council ( and other strong partners, 澳门玄机图 maintains the Portal, ensuring that data is current and relevant to emerging priorities, developing constant improvements of the site, and ensuring that the website is consistently tested and functional for users.听

澳门玄机图 also supports its environmental risk and private sector clients听through the acquisition process to assess the climate resilience of听properties. This service offering is complimenting the standard ESG process听that helps inform investors听through widely-used metrics of Environmental, Social and Governance factors. While the Environmental component of ESG typically considers听factors such as carbon footprint and water and waste management, the recent climate risk assessment offering defines听risk from natural hazards and a company鈥檚 potential exposure to climate change and its exacerbating forces. This service offering provides听decision-makers with an understanding of existing and future environmental conditions, in addition to identifying requirements to recover, adapt, grow, and maintain resiliency.

澳门玄机图 Coastal Assessments

澳门玄机图 provides detailed assessments at the federal, regional, state, and local levels with environmental expertise. Coastal assessments include predictions of flooding and inundation as well as shoreline and habitat responses to changing conditions (e.g., sea levels, temperatures, and wave action). 澳门玄机图 has the capability of modeling coastal processes including inundation from sea level rise (SLR), storm surge, waves, shoreline change, hydro-morphological changes (pre/post SLR conditions or storms or with mitigation plans) and beach nourishment assessments. 澳门玄机图 also supports resilience planning with ecological/habitat modelling assessments.

In the Gulf Coast Storm Surge Project, 澳门玄机图 engineers analyzed the environmental constraints of the Gulf of Mexico region as a key part of the study. The result was a solution with an estimated total cost of approximately $11 billion and a benefit-to-cost ratio of 3.1 over a life span reaching to 2085, influencing 4,300 square miles and six counties. Once constructed, this vital protection for the Texas coast will include a structure only found in one other location worldwide鈥攖he Netherlands. This will prevent billions of dollars in damages and economic loss and ensure sustainability for one of the nation鈥檚 most important ecosystems. The work received the 2017 American Council of Engineering Companies Texas Engineering Excellence Awards Silver Medal and the 2017 American Public Works Association Texas Chapter Project of the Year Award in the Environmental Category under $2 million.

During the National Park Coastal Flood Modeling project, 澳门玄机图听partnered with the University of Rhode Island听and听the US National Park Service (NPS)听on an initiative to assess the vulnerability of听three听coastal听NPS听properties听that experienced severe flooding听associated with the landfall of听Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The approach focused on developing both high accuracy elevation data and new inundation models to evaluate storm surges under current and future SLR conditions. The听project resulted in听a robust data infrastructure and technical procedures that will be used in preparing for and responding to future storms at these properties. 澳门玄机图 developed a custom application using the Advanced CIRCulation (ADCIRC) computer model, which was听resolved听to capture detailed coastal features such as inlets, marshes, and nearshore bars, and was updated with the best available elevation data including post-Sandy LiDAR and ground survey points听at听key park infrastructure.

Additionally, 澳门玄机图 led a project for the Rhode Island Division of Statewide Planning to create business-specific Risk Reduction Guides to help small businesses become more resilient to extreme weather events. 澳门玄机图 conducted an Exposure Analysis to determine what areas of the state are most vulnerable to flooding events and power outages. To gauge the vulnerabilities and the lessons learned from past events, the Project Team performed over 100 vulnerability assessments with small business owners in four Pilot Areas identified through the Exposure Analysis. Input collected from these assessments and other outreach events was used to inform the creation of useful Risk Reduction Guides to benefit small businesses statewide.