Chester, PA Hazard and Climate Planning Project

Building capacity to adapt to climate change in a tidal-front community

PA Sea Grant and a coalition of planners and coastal outreach specialists have teamed up with the City of Chester in Delaware County to develop a climate adaptation plan to enable the community to:

• 1. Understand the adaptive capacity of the local systems within their community
• 2. Identify ways to address new risks and vulnerabilities from predicted changes in climate
• 3. Prioritize and plan actions to increase community resiliency to climate-related impacts.

Project Partners:

• City of Chester
• Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission
• ICF International
• Partnership for the Delaware Estuary Inc.
• NOAA
• EPA
• Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access, PASDA
• SC2, White House Council on Strong Cities, Strong Communities
• Delaware Sea Grant

Contacts:
Jaclyn Rhoads, PA Sea Grant jaclyn_rhoads@yahoo.com
Chris Linn, DVRPC clinn@dvrpc.org
Ann Faulds, PA Sea Grant afaulds@psu.edu, 215-806-0894