Are Small Coastal Businesses Thinking About Disaster Preparedness?
The Coastal Training Program helped business owners assess their vulnerability to the impacts of a natural disaster using the Tourism Resilience Index.
Location
Online
Coastal businesses, a powerful economic engine for Maine, are generally little prepared for storm surge and coastal flooding. Yet lessons learned from previous disasters underscore how important the recovery of businesses is to the overall recovery of a regions economy.
The Wells Reserve collaborated with the Kennebunk-Kennebunkport-Arundel Chamber of Commerce and the Town of Kennebunkport, through a NERRS Science Collaborative grant, to help business owners assess their vulnerability to the impacts of a natural disaster using the Tourism Resilience Index. The Index was developed by Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant and adapted for New England. This webinar will share best practices identified by businesses and lessons learned from the project.
This webinar will be led by Annie Cox, Coastal Training Program Coordinator.
About the Project
See Decreasing Vulnerability for our Beach-Based Businesses
About this Webinar Series
Join the NERRS Science Collaborative for monthly webinars. Speakers share unique approaches to addressing current coastal and estuarine management issues. Learn about new methods to integrate technical experts and users of project outputs into the research process, and how their research results and products might inform your work. The Science Collaborative is a cooperative program hosted by the University of Michigan and funded by NOAA.