Financial Resilience Manual

November 14, 2014

Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium

Many local governments are not financially prepared with available resources to address the short-term and long-term issues of recovery and reconstruction. This decision support tool can be used to identify the optimal policy alternative to allocate financial reserves necessary for local governments along the coast to minimize the financial burden of cleanup, recovery, and reconstruction costs from future tropical storm events. The manual Community Decision Support to Local Governments in Budget Planning Under Coastal Risk has been used to train extension professionals along the Gulf coast and the practices have been implemented in at least two Gulf communities.
A PDF is available here: Community Decision Support to Local Governments in Budget Planning under Coastal Risk – Extension Program Manual

Images of Sea Grant's work in research, education and extension provided by (from left to right) Wisconsin, Guam and Florida Sea Grant programs. Design by Hallee Meltzer | National Sea Grant Office.

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