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Nature-Based Solutions Tools Search

This database contains over 400 tools and resources that can help guide practitioners at various stages of the nature-based solutions project cycle. Use the filters to identify the tools and resources most useful to you.

You can filter the full list by the habitat type you’re working in, the nature-based solutions strategy you want to use, the project phase you are looking for help with, or the type of tool/resource you’re looking for.

The tools and resources shown here were gathered through a robust search of both federal and non-federal sources. We recognize that this library will never be completely comprehensive, but if you know of an important missing tool or resource, please email nesp@duke.edu.

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This webpage links to several resources and sites associated with FEMA's expanded coastal flood hazard studies and other coastal flood risk resiliency work. It discusses thier Risk Mapping, Assessment and Planning framework, how they're updating their flood insurance studies and flood insurance rate maps, and mitigation best practices. 

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This technical note gives information about planting designs, the qualities of dune species and planting techniques. Additional topics covered include fencing installation and site management.

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This storymap provides a brief introduction to the development and potential uses of USGS' CoSMos tool, which makes detailed predictions of storm-induced coastal flooding, erosion, and cliff failures over large geographic scales.

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The report focuses on translating marsh migration model results into implementing a successful project. Additional topics covered include monitoring, case studies, and overcoming barriers to marsh migration.

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This site hosts several geospatial tools showing USGS study sites and characterizing marsh characteristics using data combined from several USGS sources to define and identify coastal marsh sites across the U.S. with a strong focus on the southeast and east coasts.

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This guide is meant to help facilitate collaboration, create management plans, and conduct targeted actions plan for invasive species in the northeastern United States.

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Provides a guide to planning and implementing a prescribed burn and reviewing the burn after it is complete.

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This guide helps managers in the process of slash pile construction and burning.

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This tool can be used to estimate the greenhouse gas reduction and carbon sequestration potential of a landowners farm or ranch. It could be a useful tool for quantifying the value of specific NBS strategies.

This tool can be used to estimate the greenhouse gas reduction and carbon sequestration potential of different conservation practices based off county-level geographic data. It could be useful for quantifying the value of specifc NBS strategies.

This guide provides information for community managers on many different wildfire mitigation practices, including forest thinning.

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This guide is meant ti inform local governments on community based public-private partnerships and alternative market-based tools for integrated green stormwater infrastructure.

This reference documents lists regional coastal management and climate service contacts, and links to federal resources discussing NBS and future conditions. These include guidbeooks, toolkits, mapping tools, visalizers, databases and handouts.

This strategy outlines the USFS’s interagency approach to confronting the wildfire crisis. It touches on collaborative burn strategies more broadly.

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The Conservation Concerns Tool lets landowners build out a concerns list which they can take to their local USDA Service Center to assist with designing solutions to their concerns.

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This document provides information on how to implement and maintain standard firebreaks. It also explains essential considerations to keep in mind when constructing these interventions.

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The Conservation Webinar Portal provides live and on-demand webinars on multi-discipline topics by specialists primarily for the East service area states and the Caribbean.

This document guides appllicants through the conception, design, and implementation process for coral restoration for risk reduction (CR4) projects for hazard mitigation funding.

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Containing information about designing coral reef restoration projects specifically for reducing flood risk, this guide provides the key components needed to make a project successful. The authors outline federal funding available for coral reef restoration projects, including advice about the application process.

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Monitoring is an integral component of every coral restoration project, making this guide especially valuable to coral restoration project managers. This resource lays out metrics for environmental, ecological, socioeconomic, and coral health.

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