Coastal communities face compound hazards due to elements such as sea-level rise, increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather, flooding, changing morphology, heat, drought, and human development. Amidst these challenges, public and private organizations have developed public engagement and capacity-building programs to help support adaptation planning and implementation. Marsh Institute Director Robert Johnston received funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for the project “Evaluating Social, Economic and Environmental Outcomes of Community-Based Coastal Adaptation Engagements: An Integrated Economics and Machine-Learning Framework” that will develop an analytical framework and quantitative approach to evaluate and predict the extent to which public engagement and capacity-building activities enhance coastal communities’ capacity to progress towards transformative climate adaptation.

For full project descriptions, see the Marsh Institute Research Projects web page.