EPA - "Smart Growth Fixes for Climate Adaptation and Resilience: Changing Land Use and Building Codes and Policies to Prepare for Climate Change"

Title: Smart Growth Fixes for Climate Adaptation and Resilience: Changing Land Use and Building Codes and Policies to Prepare for Climate Change Source: EPA Data/Action: Smart Growth Publications Date: 1/1/2017 Text Preview: ...POLICIES TO PREPARE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE EPA 231-R-17-001 January 2017 www.epa.gov/smartgrowth Office of Sustainable Communities Smart Growth Program ... ...climate change, EPA’s contractors, CH2M and Farr Associates, convened a panel of national smart growth and climate adaptation experts in February 2013. This panel identified topics related to local zoning and building codes that are essential to supporting resilience. Under another contract, MC Consulting, Inc. and Farr Associates developed an initial draft of this publication. Members of EPA’s Cross-Agency Adaptation Workgroup and EPA’s National Water Program Climate Change... ...climate change impacts to better protect lives and property and ensure they can continue to offer a good quality of life and a thriving economy now and in the future. This publication can help local government officials, staff, and boards find strategies to prepare for climate change impacts through land use and building policies. The policy options described here bring multiple short- and long-term environmental, economic, health, and societal benefits that can not only prepare a community and its residents and businesses for the impacts of climate change...