The Hudson River Watershed Alliance, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy, facilitates Community Resilience Building Workshops for municipalities. The Community Resilience Building workshop is a one-day, community-driven and participatory workshop focused on improving local adaptation to flooding and other climate change impacts. The workshop brings together municipal leaders, municipal staff, and other key stakeholders for a facilitated discussed to identify strengths, vulnerabilities, and opportunities to improve climate resilience. To foster work across municipal boundaries, we convene multiple communities at a time that share waterbodies and resources.
Goals of the workshop are to:
- Identify projected climate change impacts in the communities,
- Identify infrastructure, social and environmental assets that are vulnerable to flooding and other climate impacts;
- Develop collective strategies to help improve resilience; and
- Prioritize those strategies.
Information from the workshop is summarized in a report. See below for a few examples.
Lower Wappinger Creek Watershed: Community Resilience Building Workshop Summary of Findings (Village of Wappingers Falls, Town of Wappinger, Town of Poughkeepsie, Town of LaGrange, Town of Pleasant Valley) – August 2019
