Summary: The built environment includes human-made or modified landscapes, structures, and infrastructure systems that bring together people, services, and economic activities. This chapter focuses on the built environment found in and around cities and suburbs across the country, where most Americans live and work.

Published : . November 2010. This report—known as the Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (or CPG) 101— is designed to help both novice and experienced planners navigate the planning pro ...

Published : . May 2016. This guide (NIST Special Publication 1190) outlines a practical six-step planning process to help communities establish affordable priorities and allocate reso ...

After a slow start to the 2016 hurricane season, storms in the eastern North Pacific Ocean were plentiful during July and the beginning of August.

Even when the tropical Pacific is coasting along in neutral, there’s plenty to talk about.

Published : . May 2009. This report provides a detailed treatment of climate concerns in coastal areas, and proposes an approach for assessing vulnerability to climate change and clim ...

Published : . September 2012. In August 2011, NOAA, the EPA, and the state Sea Grant College Programs of Hawaii, Rhode Island, and Texas hosted a two-day roundtable meeting of nationa ...

Published : . March 2015. The Toolkit—a downloadable PDF—is designed to benefit a wide range of public- and private-sector officials working with businesses and industries in the econ ...

Climate experts are keeping their eyes on the tropical Pacific, watching a strip of cool water that may be one indicator that La Niña is brewing.

A checkerboard of drought conditions has developed across the United States east of the Rockies between spring and summer 2016. Since March, the total drought-affected area of the country has nearly doubled.