Decision Support Tools Report Out Nov.

14th 2011
Sustainable Shorelines on the Hudson River
(Text is excerpted from cited website for discussion purposes)


The Roadmap for Adapting to Coastal Risk is a participatory process for assessing a
communitys vulnerability to hazards!and for incorporating relevant data and information about
hazards and climate into ongoing local planning and decision-making. Community planning
provides an opportunity to address hazards and climate change vulnerabilities, since residents
and other stakeholders are already creating or updating policies and plans that will guide
community development. Decisions are being made on land use, government services,
community character, and natural resource protection. Hazards are connected to all these sectors
and impact their operations and budgets. The approach incorporates relevant hazards and climate
data and information into ongoing assessment and planning processes. This participatory
assessment process is designed to
Engage key staff members and stakeholders in a comprehensive, yet rapid, assessment of
local vulnerabilities;
Use existing information resources to evaluate potential hazard and climate impacts;
Collaborate across disciplines to better understand and plan for impacts; and
Identify opportunities for improving resilience to current and future hazard risks.
The Roadmap process emphasizes the value of collaboration, local knowledge, spatial data, and
multimedia materials (photos, charts, and newspaper articles) in enabling people to share their
concerns and priorities about the impacts of hazard and climate change on their community.
(http://www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/training/roadmap/index.html)
VIMS shoreline management decision tree for undefended shorelines and those with failed
shoreline structures (such as bulkheads and riprap revetments). A tree-like graph of questions
and answers about shoreline characteristics leads the user to the environmentally preferable
approach for management of that shoreline. In general, shoreline management decisions that
maximize positive ecological elements and minimize negative elements are best for a shoreline.
In general, impacts should be placed in the following order: in the upland, in the riparian zone, in
the subaqueous zone and in the intertidal zone. The rational for this is the protection of the least
abundant and most vulnerable resources over abundant or relatively easily replaced resources.
This decision tree has incorporated the principles mentioned above by: 1) Recommending that
shorelines be left in their natural condition unless shoreline erosion has the potential to result in
significant loss of property and upland improvement; 2) Preserving and enhancing natural
shoreline elements where possible; and 3) Where impacts are unavoidable, locating erosion
control treatments where they will have the least overall impact to ecosystem
function.(http://ccrm.vims.edu/decisiontree/index.html)

CBI Simulations are carefully structured multi-party exercises that can be used to introduce
large groups of stakeholders to new issues, options and ways of working. These exercises are
based on actual or hybrid scenarios and are highly experiential, requiring participants to engage
in realistic decision-making with other players in real time.There are simulations dealing with all
kinds of policy choices, resource management decisions, the setting of health and safety
standards, budget allocations, human resource policy choices, and a variety of ethical or values-
based disputes. .. we use them to help multiple and diverse parties, engaged in complex decision-
making, to see whats coming their way. (http://cbuilding.org/publication/article/using-role-play-
simulations-increase-public-organizational-learning)
Decision Support Tools Report Out Nov. 14th 2011
Sustainable Shorelines on the Hudson River
(Text is excerpted from cited website for discussion purposes)


ARIES http://ecoinformatics.uvm.edu/aries
Cumulative Impacts
http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/
InVEST
http://www.naturalcapitalproject.org/InVEST.html
MIMES / MIDAS
http://www.uvm.edu/giee/mimes/index.htm
Compatibility Index (MOP)
http://www.seaplan.org/documents/CompatibilityA
nalysis.pdf
Games/Simulation
http://cbuilding.org/node/892
COAST http://efc.muskie.usm.maine.edu/docs/coast.arcuser.pdf.
HAZUS-MH http://haz.main.org/taxonomy/term/19/all
CSC Road Map
http://www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/training/road
map/index.html
CSC Hazard Assessment Template http://www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/tools/hat/index.html
Key Pad Polling
http://ebmtoolsdatabase.org/tool/keypad-polling
Can VIS http://www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/tools/canvis/
CDP Criterium Decision Plus *
http://www.infoharvest.com/ihroot/index.asp
EMDS Ecosystem Management Decision
Support *
http://ebmtoolsdatabase.org/tool/emds-ecosystem-
management-decision-support
LDW
http://www.logicaldecisions.com/
Mitigation Ratio Calculator http://www.kingeconomics.com/pubs/NOAA%20WetMitRa
tio.pdf
MultiCSync
http://ebmtoolsdatabase.org/tool/multcsync
TOA-MD
http://tradeoffs.oregonstate.edu/minimum-data-
info
SimCoast http://www.discoverysoftware.co.uk/SimCoast.htm
Community Viz
http://placeways.com/communityviz/
VIMS CCRM Decision-Tree http://ccrm.vims.edu/decisiontree/index.html
VIMS Erosion Vulnerability Assessment Tool http://ccrm.vims.edu/gis_data_maps/interactive_maps/ero
sion_vulnerability/index.html
ADAPT Adaptation Database Planning Tool http://www.icleiusa.org
CRiSTAL http://www.iisd.org/cristaltool/
CSC Inundation Tool Kit
http://www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/inundation/in
dex.html
SoVi http://webra.cas.sc.edu/hvri/products/sovi.aspx
SLAMM & View http://warrenpinnacle.com/prof/SLAMM/
LUMP http://geography.wr.usgs.gov/science/lupm.html