This project implemented a participatory process with key stakeholders to evaluate current and potential future resilience-related investments in Jamaica Bay. The process was designed to consider baywide concepts that could reduce future flood risk exposure while also improving water quality, restoring habitat in and around the bay, and more generally improving resilience to extreme weather events.
Pages
118
Format
Paperback
Publisher
RAND Corporation
Release
September 04, 2018
ISBN
1977401147
ISBN 13
9781977401144
Building Resilience in an Urban Coastal Environment: Integrated, Science-Based Planning in Jamaica Bay, New York
This project implemented a participatory process with key stakeholders to evaluate current and potential future resilience-related investments in Jamaica Bay. The process was designed to consider baywide concepts that could reduce future flood risk exposure while also improving water quality, restoring habitat in and around the bay, and more generally improving resilience to extreme weather events.