Science Into Action
Download reports and presentations by ICAR faculty and affiliated researchers. Selected reports.
The Resilience Adaptation Feasibility Tool (RAFT) as an Approach for Incorporating Equity Into Coastal Resilience Planning and for Incorporating Equity Into Coastal Resilience Planning and Project Implementation.
The Resilience Adaptation Feasibility Tool (RAFT) assists coastal communities in incorporating equity into resilience planning and implementation of projects to increase resilience. The RAFT includes social and economic dimensions in assessment of resilience and focuses on how localities can build resilience equitably.
Virginia Beach Flood Protection Program Bond Referendum Analysis
A report by ICAR and ODU’s Dragas Center for Economic Analysis and Policy provides a technical economic analysis–combined with past social science and participatory mapping work on flooding–of a bond referendum about whether the City of Virginia Beach should increase real estate taxes to fund a flood protection program.
Demonstration of a Simple Methodology of Flood Prediction for a Coastal City Under Threat of Sea Level Rise: The Case of a Coastal City Under Threat of Sea Level Rise: The Case of Norfolk, VA
Many coastal cities are at risk of increased flooding due to sea level rise. This study uses a simple flood prediction method for one city at risk, Norfolk, VA, to estimate the probability of future flooding by observing hourly water level from 1927 to 2021, forecasting those observations into hourly estimates until 2100.
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