Ecological and engineering principles for restoring wetlands, including site assessment, design and construction, vegetation establishment, and monitoring and ongoing management.

The National Mitigation Investment Strategy is a single national strategy for advancing mitigation investment to reduce risks posed by and increase the nation’s resilience to natural hazards, such as sea level rise, droughts, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and earthquakes. This portfolio showcases mitigation projects to provide practitioners with examples of activities that integrate the Investment Strategy’s goals and reflect the guiding principles of the Disaster Recovery Reform Act of 2018 (DRRA).

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 document outlines the national forest strategy for reforestation across the country. Reforestation is one of the most essential approaches for forest restoration, and this guide provides a framework for government agencies managing reforestation projects.

This website contains training programs to prepare fire managers from different government agencies to conduct safe and effective prescribed burns.

This website provides information for each state’s plant diagnostics lab(s), which aim to support the health and productivity of plants affected by pests and pathogens.

Compiled by scientists, the NRRSS database contains information about more than 37,000 river restoration projects in the United States It also collects scientific papers on river connectivity that originated from information found in the database.

This publication was developed to help people on Florida’s coast select and use plants for coastal stabilization and habitat
restoration.

This document is a job aid that aims to provide Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) personnel and stakeholders with field guidance specific to Puerto Rico on using Natural and Nature-Based Solutions (NNBS) to stabilize shorelines through the protection, enhancement or restoration and creation of sand dunes in alignment with FEMA’s strategic goals for climate resilience.

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 job aid is designed to equip FEMA personnel and stakeholders with the necessary knowledge and field-oriented, practical advice for successful streambank stabilization works in Puerto Rico through the application of Natural and Nature-Based Solutions (NNBS). This involves restoring, protecting and enhancing riparian buffers and vegetation along the streams in Puerto Rico, especially those with repetitive loss, consistent with FEMA's strategic objectives for enhancing climate resilience.

Developed by NOAA, this resource helps users determine the best living shoreline design based on the specific attributes of the site. The guide contains a helpful infographic that displays the spectrum of gray to green shoreline infrastructure.

This instructor-led course prepares participants to successfully plan/implement green/natural infrastrcuture projects in their coastal communities. It includes a self-guided virtual module and an in-person event where participants work with local experts to develop a green infrastructure strategy. An online version of the course is offered.

This interactive self-paced module helps users identify coastal hazard issues, review possible green infrastructure interventions, and ideate community green infrastructure plans.

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 virtual training describes the types, benefits of, and barriers to NBS establishment, how to integrate NBS into existing community plans, and how to resource and implement NBS strategies.

Comprised of key takeaways from 4 peer exchanges across the U.S., this report summarizes key recommendations and challenges in the permitting, design, monitoring, maintenance, and funding phases of NBS deployment in coastal highway resilience 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 page links three quick reference guides pertaining to NBS and ecosystem services: the practices & benefits, installation & maintenance costs, and assessment of costs & benefits.

Detailed guide to planning, design, construction, and maintenance of constructed and restored salt marshes. Intended as a how-to guide for those new to marsh restoration or as a reference for experienced practitioners.