Other Helpful Resources
The following resources include guidance, policy, scientific, and planning documents on local and regional sea level rise vulnerability and adaptation planning.
CHARG Documents
General and California Climate Change Planning Resources
- 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)
Regulations and Policy Guidance
- 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 Sea Level Rise Adaptation and Vulnerability Assessments
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).
Mapping Tools
Academic, Non-Governmental Organizations
- 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)
News Media
- 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.