Legislative Response to Flood Risk Five Forms of Flooding Protect - by building levees and hard structures Halting or phasing out current maladaptive Accommodate - such as raising structures policies and measures that perpetuate risky Retreat - migration away from coasts coastal development. Fostering and funding resilience by using In Florida existing policy frameworks. Creating new policies and measures that respond to the full extent of the challenges communities face. Key to Five Forms of Flooding in Florida Frequent Floods Jacksonville flood events could increase from 10 per year to Tidal Flooding CoastalCoastal Areas Area over 100 per year by 4 & Sea Level Gulf Coast Red areas will be 2045. Rise Tidal wetlands could underwater with experience shifts in six feet of sea-level Inland Migration spawning seasons, rise. affecting local seafood Inland cities may Seasonal High output and economy.¹ face mass migration Ground Water from coastal low-lying areas, stressing the social Examples of and infrastructure sources of water intrusion capacity.⁵ show that Rainfall flooding is contributed to Urban Inundation by more than just sea water. Miami will face Tourism Underwater chronic water By 2060, up to inundation by half of Sanibel and the end of the Urban Runoff Captiva Island’s century.3 usable land may be flooded.2 Sources 1. Osgood, K. E., 2008: Climate Impacts on U.S. Living Marine Resources: National Marine Fisheries Service Concerns, Activities and Needs. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/SPO-89. 118 pp., National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, MD Storm Surge 2. Union of Concerned Scientists. 2017. When Rising Seas Hit Home Report pg. 24 Online at www.ucsusa.org/RisingSeasHitHome 3. Union of Concerned Scientists. 2017. When Rising Seas Hit Home Report pg. 3 Online at www.ucsusa.org/RisingSeasHitHome 4. Dahl KA, Fitzpatrick MF, Spanger-Siegfried E (2017) Figure 9. Sea level rise drives increased tidal flooding frequency at tide gauges along the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts: Projections for 2030 and 2045. PLoS ONE12(2): e0170949. https://doi.org/10.1371/ journal.pone.0170949 5. Coker, A. L.,.S. Hanks, K. S. Eggleston, J. Risser, P. G. Tee, K. J. Chronister, C. L. Troisi, R. Arafat, and L. Franzini, 2006: Social and mental health needs assessment of Katrina evacuees. Disaster Management & Response, 4, 88-94. Graphics and Information provided by Jeffrey Huber, AIA.