Open Space & Nature-Based Solutions
Open Space Management Guide
This guide from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, provides actionable guidance to inform communities about how to develop and implement an open-space management strategy for buyout lands.
Open Space Management Guide (PDF)
A Guide for Local Communities
This FEMA guide provides foundational information on the benefits associated with using nature-based solutions to advance natural hazard mitigation and climate adaptation.
Building Community Resilience with Nature-Based Solutions: A Guide for Local Officials (PDF)
Strategies for Success
The second guide builds upon the first and highlights five key strategies for implementing successful nature-based solution projects to advance natural hazard mitigation and climate adaptation.
Building Community Resilience With Nature-Based Solutions, Strategies for Success (Nature Based Solutions Guidebook 2023) (PDF)