Adapting to the Rise: A Guide For Connecticut's Coastal Communities
After working with over 35 municipalities on community resilience building, the Coastal Resilience Team developed “Adapting to the Rise: A Guide for Connecticut’s Coastal Communities”. This guidebook provides town planners, city managers, municipal staff, elected officials, and concerned citizens with 1) a basic understanding of several topics related to adapting to immediate and future flooding and sea level rise, 2) examples from communities that have advanced various adap
Confronting a New Reality: Building Community Resilience in Guilford, Connecticut
Back in 2007 the Coastal Resilience program approached the Town of Guilford in hopes of establishing a model for municipal-driven community resilience. Fortunately, the Council of State Governments/Eastern Regional Conference embarked on developing a video case study that documents efforts by officials in Guilford, Connecticut, together with The Nature Conservancy, Yale University's Urban Ecology and Design Laboratory, and Milone and MacBroom, to develop a Community Coastal