The implementation plan for NOAA’s Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Response and Prevention Strategy provides key actions by NOAA and partners that would increase understanding of and response to the disease in the Atlantic and Caribbean region and prevent its spread to the Indo-Pacific. The implementation plan builds on the framework provided by the NOAA Strategy for Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Response and Prevention, released in November 2020. It presents a clear, specific plan of action that can be used to secure funding for key disease research, response, engagement, and prevention activities over the next five years (2022-2027). Recognizing that stony coral tissue loss disease will be present on U.S. coral reefs for the foreseeable future, the implementation plan highlights actions necessary to understand and address this threat to coral reefs over the long term.
Florida is the fourth most vulnerable coastal state in the USA to sea level rise (SLR). Studies predict that a 1.20 m rise translates into the displacement of almost five million people and destroys about 2.6 million homes. The only solution to reducing the vulnerability of Florida’s coastline is the creation and implementation of coastal policies, including a reduction in armoring and the adoption of policies such as rolling easements. This paper advances a SLR inundation computer model that estimates the costs of applying rolling easement policy through three outcomes: property value loss, property area loss and conservation easement payments to home owners. The GIS computer model is modular which allows new policy components, datasets, or ArcGIS tools to easily be added to the model. The results show that property land inundation and real property losses are primarily linear while rolling easement compensation payments are substantial during the first three scenarios then are largely stable for the remaining SLR steps.
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