This page links three quick reference guides pertaining to NBS and ecosystem services: the practices & benefits, installation & maintenance costs, and assessment of costs & benefits.

The Digital Coast (authorized by the Digital Coast Act, 16 U.S.C. § 1467) was developed to meet the unique needs of the coastal management community. The website provides not only coastal data, but also the tools, training, and information needed to make these data truly useful. Content comes from many sources, all of which are vetted by NOAA.

This page links to several tools and resources state and local communities can use to explore renewable energy implementation. This includes benefit calculation tools (through tax rebates and incentive programs), a data-driven decarbonization plan implementaiton platform, state-by-state energy ranking comparison tools, links to techncial assistance programs, energy programs, renewable energy initatives. 

This document outlines a 5-step process to effectively design, plan, and implement tidal wetland restoration in the region betwee Maine to Virginia. Developed during a NOAA Restoration Center workshop, it details how to: predict relative sea level rise, gather relevant information, conduct sea level rise impact analysis, incorporate said analysis into project design, and implement maintenance and monitoring on the tidal wetland restoration projects.

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.

Summarizes common coastal hazard reduction NBS and includes a key quantifying expected and possible benefits of each intervention

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 guidebook describes how to perform a floodplain reconnection project in four easy-to-follow steps. This resource also provides characteristics of a functional floodplain to provide a standard for successful projects.

This guide helps users select grassland restoration goals and implement those goals with technical guidance on grassland restoration activities. It also contains a guide to help with native plant selection for California sites.

This guide explains the difference between low-tech process-based restoration and traditional stream restoration methods, describing lessons learned from past projects. The authors include case studies, benefits, and funding sources.

This report combines engineering, ecologic, geospatial, social, and economic data and tools to provide a rigorous valuation of where potential coral reef restoration could decrease the hazard faced by Florida and Puerto Rico’s reef-fronted coastal communities.

The website provides a diversity of tools highlighting the best practices for riverine connectivity restoration. A special emphasis is placed on dam removal, floodplain restoration, and the economics of river restoration.

Discussing the trade-offs between living and hard shorelines is the primary focus of this resource. The website contains best management practices, fact sheets, and a story map illustrating successful projects in the Great Lakes region.

This detailed guidebook summarizes the best current knowledge on using beaver to restore streams, floodplains, wetlands and riparian systems. It summarizes beaver ecology, watershed-level planning, beaver dam analogues, urban and general population management, and dam viability amongst other topics.

The Fire and Fuels Extension from FVS is a helpful tool for forest fuel management. This guidebook provides examples, stand visualizations, and outputs from the software.

This report summarizes the NBS managers in cities across teh US used to solve their unique green infrastructure challenges, the reasoning for selecting these solutions, and outcomes when applicable. It includes a repository of projets readers can find EPA reports on categorized by which step of the implementation process they may be most pertient to.

Provides guidance on implementing urban tree planting projects from start to finish.

The U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit is a website designed to help people find and use tools, information, and subject matter expertise to build climate resilience. It includes 600+ tools, 250+ case studies, regional content, trainings/webinars, a glossary of resilience terms, and lets users navigate based off of topic, hazard, asset and region. It also includes a 'Steps to Reislience' framework that can be used to identify and manage climate risk(s) and a funding section for resilience-specific government funding prorgams .

A guide to help assess the urban canopy/street trees within a project area. Provides external sources to help with assessment, management, and modeling.

Provides a more user-friendly adaptation of The Sustainable Urban Forest: A Step-by-Step Approach (Leff 2016). This is a full-service resource for all the guides, case studies, and research needed for an urban forestry project.