Virginia Eastern Shore Coastal Resilience
This fact sheet presents the Coastal Resilience program in Virginia Eastern Shore, outlining a framework to assess coastal risks and apply nature based solutions. It highlights tools that help communities evaluate sea level rise, storm surge, and habitat changes while supporting planning for flood risk reduction and climate adaptation.
Subject Tags
- Climate resilience
- Coastal
- Nature-based solutions
Summary
This fact sheet describes the Coastal Resilience program for Virginia Eastern Shore, led by The Nature Conservancy, which supports communities in reducing coastal flood risk through nature based solutions. The resource outlines a four step approach that includes assessing risk and vulnerability, identifying solutions, taking action, and measuring effectiveness. The Coastal Resilience tool enables users to visualize impacts from sea level rise, storm surge, and habitat changes, helping decision makers understand risks to people, ecosystems, and infrastructure.
The fact sheet also highlights solutions such as habitat restoration, living shorelines, oyster reefs, and hybrid approaches that combine natural and built defenses. By integrating scientific data and local knowledge, the program helps guide coastal planning, strengthen resilience, and support sustainable adaptation strategies in response to climate change impacts.