As a catastrophic hurricane season continues to bring immense damage to communities across the Southeast United States, the need to strengthen flood resilience and adapt to the warming world has never been more clear. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is one of the agencies tasked with implementing federal policy to address this, and has outlined an estimated $149 billion in engineering megaprojects to adapt U.S. cities to climate change - but fails to model accurately for a warming world, center frontline communities or adequately consider green infrastructure.
In partnership with the Environmental and Energy Studies Institute (EESI), this webinar will describe the current landscape of federal coastal resilience policy and feature speakers from community-focused organizations and academia that have worked to implement policies to advance planning for equity, climate change, and green infrastructure over “grey” on these resilience megaprojects. From these experiences, the speakers have detailed some of the issues and challenges associated with resilience planning done by the US Army Corps of Engineers and have developed recommendations to improve federal policy in their report Improving Coastal Resilience Projects with USACE.
To join in on this discussion, please use the link below: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qf-ioqzspGdCyeBF3gHO0wchvi2OTUMNV
Moderator:
Speakers:
- Robert Rosso, Resilient Coastal Communities Project
- Skip Stiles, Wetlands Watch
- Joan Steinhaus, Texas Surge Coalition and Turtle Island Restoration Network
- Audrey Siu, Miami Waterkeeper
