Show Don't Tell: Visualizing Sea Level Rise to Set Planning Priorities
City officials in Tybee Island, Georgia, recognized sea level rise as a growing problem for their community. Visualizations from a sea level rise viewer helped them raise awareness of the city's vulnerabilities and led to development of Georgia’s first sea level rise plan.
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Adapted from NOAA Digital Coast, "Identifying Areas Vulnerable to Sea Level Rise in Georgia." Updated in September 2016 based on "Community Resilience: Tybee Island creates Georgia’s first sea level rise plan." See links at right under Additional Resources.
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Mikefairbanks. CC-BY-SA-3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode, via Wikimedia Commons
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23 April 2024 - 10:17am
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