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This roadmap outlines nature-based solutions (NBS) for flood mitigation in rural communities, particularly focusing on North Carolina's Coastal Plain. It provides a step-by-step guide for landowners to plan, implement, and monitor ten identified NBS, including cover cropping, hardpan breakup, and wetland restoration. The document also details the cost-benefit analysis and potential financial incentives for each solution, aiming to enhance disaster resilience through improved land management for water retention and storage.
This publication discusses the components to collaborate successfully in rural revitalization efforts. If focuses on coming together, staying together, and growing together to create a social mechanism stakeholders can use to work toward common goals.
This publication provides a set of budget tools for the ten most promising nature-based solutions for flood reduction in Eastern North Carolina, which include common farm practices of no-till, cover crops, and tree planting to more complex NBS of wetland creation, water farming, and low-rise earthen berms and retention basins with flashboard risers. These budget tools are the result of research termed “FloodWise” to describe the water quality, flood mitigation, farm benefits, and community engagement and governance connections.
