This best management practices guide describes practices for retaining or improving habitat connectivity for amphibians and reptiles in California.

Details on stormwater control practices, including many NBS. Includes design and construction guidelines, operations and maintenance information, assessing project performance, and case studies.

The purpose of this document is to provide a resource that communities can use to identify and evaluate a range of potential mitigation actions for reducing risk to natural hazards and disasters. The focus of this document is mitigation, which is action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to hazards. The document discusses 16 natural hazards, and describes mitigation strategies across several different aspects of mitigation within them. These include regulations requirements through FEMA, education prorgams, and natural systems protection (NBS) ideas. 

This page links ot the social vulnerability layer of the national risk index map. As a consequence enhancing risk component of the National Risk Index, a Social Vulnerability score and rating represent the relative level of a community’s social vulnerability compared to all other communities at the same level. A community’s Social Vulnerability score measures its national rank or percentile. A higher Social Vulnerability score results in a higher Risk Index score.

The National Risk Index is a dataset and online tool to help illustrate the United States communities most at risk for 18 natural hazards. The Risk Index leverages available source data for natural hazard and community risk factors to develop a baseline risk measurement for each United States county and Census tract.

This Job Aid is designed to equip FEMA personnel and stakeholders with the necessary knowledge and field-oriented, practical advice for effective stormwater management works in Puerto Rico through the application of Natural and Nature-Based Solutions (NNBS). This involves capturing and storing rainwater and/or promoting the infiltration of runoff, not only to reduce flood levels, but also to support stream base flows and groundwater levels, consistent with FEMA's strategic objectives for enhancing climate resilience.

This implementation guide helps transportation professionals determine how and when to use NBS to make coastal roads and bridges more resilient. It discusses potential benefits, design and planning considerations, site assessment guidance, summarizes permitting approaches, construction considerations, and monitoring and maintenance strategies. It also links to several decisions upport tools, site characterization tools, and summarizes suggested performance metrics for evaluating completed projects.

This resource repository includes 3 guides to using NBS to mitigate natural hazards, and includes resources detailing types of NBS, assistance with the planning process, compliance/permitting, funding sources,and trainings through FEMA and FEMA's partners.

This is reference document explains/lists the different types of projects eligible to receive assistance from the CWSRF program.

This project includes two elements: an assessment of local policies and an assessment of state policies
to enhance flood resilience as a part of the Smart Growth program in Vermont.

Guidance for stormwater park planning and design, including information on engaging with communities, working with consultants, and post-construction operations.

This information sheet breaks down key components of green roofs, materials and their potential effects, quantifies potential benefits, and summarizes efficacy by region all while including links to handy tools, resources, and reports to back up each claim.

Tips for how to plant a successful pollinator garden. Includes pollinator garden designs for various site conditions.

This guidebook is an overview of best practices to promote healthy pollinator populations on federal lands. It is not specific to pollinator garden creation, but includes information that is helpful to those creating pollinator-friendly habitat.

This document is designed to give users a better understanding for how HMA grants are a viable funding source for nature-based solutions to hazard mitigation. This includes an overview of selecting appropriate NBS for a given hazard and location, FEMA HMA requirments, and how to maximize benefits for a given project. 

This document outlines the uses of the Habitat Priority Planner (HPP), which is a spatial decision support tool esigned to assist users in the prioritization of important areas in the landscape or seascape for conservation or reservation action. In addition to summarizing the development of the tool, this guide discusses the major uses of the tool, core functions, and set up instructions. It also includes a handy workbook-style exercise to walk through using the tool. 

Guide to designing and constructing a rain garden, including maintenance and trouble-shooting.

The Rainwater Harvesting Tool was designed to provide geospatial data to assist in determining the feasibility of collecting rainwater in an interactive and intuitive way.

This resource library houses online tools and resources like project examples, webinar clips, GIS tools, and federal research and reports.

These maps show areas for potential restoration and conservation through NBS applications across the conterminous United States under 5 scenarios: urban greening, restoring historic forest that had been converted to grassland, conserving pristine grasslands, rewetting peatlands, and conserving tidal wetlands.