Plus, quantifying flood protection value from coral reef
Florida’s drought prompts new water use restrictions and calls for conservation, new research quantifies the value of coral reefs in protecting against coastal flooding, and a federal dredging project threatens Florida’s last …
Florida’s next multi-billion dollar plan
A “historic” investment in Everglades restoration and state water resources, new protections for coral reefs to help protect against hurricane storm surge, more money for land acquisition and septic to sewer conversions, plus the rapid …
Protecting mangroves and coral
We know the value that insurance provides in protecting our property from wind, rain, and flood. But a new report shows how insurance can protect one of Mother Nature’s own proven flood protectors: mangrove forests. The …
Spending mitigation money
As the old expression goes, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” In the case of flooding and other natural disasters, both FEMA and the IBHS tell us that a dollar of effective mitigation …