Other Helpful Resources
The following resources include guidance, policy, scientific, and planning documents on local and regional sea level rise vulnerability and adaptation planning.
- Adaptation Clearinghouse
- State of California Office of Planning and Research Adaptation Clearinghouse
- Fourth National Climate Assessment (U.S. Global Change Research Program, November 2018)
- Global Warming of 1.5 Degrees (IPCC, 2018)
- California’s Fourth Climate Change Assessment (August, 2018)
- State of California Sea-Level Rise Guidance 2018 Update (OPC, 2018)
- Safeguarding California Plan: California’s Climate Adaptation Strategy (California Natural Resources Agency, 2018)
- California Coastal Commission Statewide Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Synthesis (December 2016)
- Coastal Conservancy Sea Level Rise Adaptation
- California Ocean Protection Council Sea Level Rise Database
- Raising the Bar on Regional Resilience (Bay Area Regional Collaborative, 2017)
- Rising Seas in California: An Update on Sea-Level Rise Science (Ocean Protection Council Science Advisory Team, 2017)
- BCDC – Climate Change Bay Plan Amendment (October 2011)
- California Coastal Commission Sea Level Rise Policy Guidance (October 2018)
- California Coastal Commission – Residential Adaptation Policy Guidance (Revised March 2018)
- Climate Change Adaptation Policy Statement (FEMA, 2012)
- US Army Corps – Climate Change Adaptation Policy Statement (June 2014)
San Francisco Bay Area (Regional):
- San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission Adapting to Rising Tides (ART) Project
- ART Bay Area
Alameda County
Contra Costa County
San Francisco County and City
- San Francisco Sea Level Rise Action Plan (2016)
- Guidance for Incorporating Sea Level Rise into Capital Planning in San Francisco: Assessing Vulnerability and Risk to Support Adaptation (2014)
Marin County
- Marin Bay Waterfront Adaptation and Vulnerability Evaluation (BayWAVE)
- C-SMART: Sea Level Rise and Marin’s Ocean Coast, Adaptation Report and Vulnerability Assessment
Napa County
San Mateo County
- Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assessment (March 2018)
Santa Clara County
- Silicon Valley 2.0 Climate Adaptation Guidebook (August 2015)
Solano County
- Solano County Sea Level Rise Strategic Program (June, 2011)
Sonoma County
- Climate Ready Sonoma County: Climate Hazards and Vulnerabilities (February 2015).
- Assessment Of California’s Natural Gas Pipeline Vulnerability To Climate Change (John Radke, 2018)
- Minimum Depth to Groundwater for the Coastal San Francisco Bay Area (Ellen Plane, Kristina Hill, and Kris May; 2017)
- Coastal infrastructure: a typology for the next century of adaptation to sea-level rise (Kristina Hill, 2015)
- Clusters of community exposure to coastal flooding hazards based on storm and sea level rise scenarios—implications for adaptation networks in the San Francisco Bay region (Hummel et al., 2017)
- Dynamic Flood Modeling Essential to Assess the Coastal Impacts of Climate Change (Barnard et al., 2019)
- Global Climate change and land subsidence exacerbate inundation risk to the San Francisco Bay Area (Manoochehr Shirzaei and Roland Burgmann 2018)
- Impacts of representing sea-level rise uncertainty on future flood risks: An example from San Francisco Bay (Kelsey l. Ruckert, Perry C. Oddo, Klaus Keller, 2017)
- SFEI – Operational Landscape Units – Summary
- SFEI– Operational Landscape Units – Approach
- SFEI – San Francisco Bay Shore Inventory – Mapping for Sea Level Rise Planning (SFEI 2016)
- The Governance Gap: Climate Adaptation and Sea-Level Rise in the San Francisco Bay Area (Mark Lubell)
- UC Berkeley’s Riser SF Bay Research
- The Governance of Sea Level Rise in the San Francisco Bay Area: results from a survey of stakeholders (Lubell et al., 2019)
- Patrick Barnard, USGS and Steering Committee member – Patrick appeared on the 90.0 WBUR program “Here & Now” on August 7, 2019, discussing coastal landslides and climate change.
