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Start Year: 2018

Synthesizing Scientific Projections About Sea Level Rise, Coastal Storms and Flood Hazards in New Jersey

State, local and federal decision makers throughout New Jersey are working to enhance the resilience of coastal communities and resources to hazards – including flooding driven by sea-level rise and coastal storms – that are increasing as a result of climate change. In partnership with the Rutgers Climate Institute and as part of its co-facilitation of the New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance, EAC supported a Science and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) to synthesize for practitioners the most recent climate science needed to inform efforts to increase the resilience of New Jersey’s people, places, and assets (including infrastructure, communities and natural resources) to regional sea-level rise (SLR), changing coastal storms and the resulting flood risk. The outputs of the STAP effort are two reports:  Assessing New Jersey’s Exposure to Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Storms: Report of the NJ Climate Adaptation Alliance Science and Technical Advisory Panel, which summarizes the deliberations of the scientists who participated in the STAP; and Assessing New Jersey’s Exposure to Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Storms: A Companion Report to the New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance Science and Technical Advisory Panel Report, which describes how coastal hazard data and coastal climate change impacts are currently being addressed in New Jersey.

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coastal resilience