Ecosystems publications and documents

This report was prepared to assist Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) in providing recommendations to FEMA about how a new loan program resulting from the Safeguarding Tomorrow through Ongoing Risk Mitigation (STORM) Act can be structured to encourage nature-based solutions.

Letter to OMB Acting Director Shalanda Young for advancing equity and support for underserved communities.

Letter to Administrator Criswell on opportunities to increase equity in flood resilience. 

Stakeholder presentation for National Academy of Sciences grant to examine and address the vulnerability of petrochemical facilities along Galveston Bay to flood-induced chemical spills and releases.

It’s time for North Carolina to lead on climate mitigation and resilience to protect the state’s residents, economy and ecosystems. This EDF report outlines four resilient policy proposals.

Florida can establish a meaningful and unified resilience effort that creates a safer, more prosperous and equitable future for all communities.

Case law review of adaptive management, an iterative decision-making process wherein agencies monitor a management plan’s implementation and adjust it based on feedback.

EDF worked with researchers in conservation agriculture to publish a practitioner’s guide to conducting budget analyses for on-farm conservation practices.

EDF report provides guidance for researchers, academics, conservation nonprofits, state and government agencies, and other organizations interested in measuring the farm financial outcomes of in-field conservation practices.

This report from EDF outlines five major groundwater management challenges facing Texas to build a foundation for meaningful advances to more sustainable groundwater management in the state.