RAFT Communities

The RAFT process has been implemented in multiple locality cohorts and more recent pilot processes with several Virginia Indian Tribes. For more information explore the community profiles below.

How The RAFT Contributed to One Community’s Resilience

To hear from past RAFT localities about their experiences with The RAFT process and the advice they have for other communities developing their own Resilience Action Checklists see this video interview and testimonial with Joy Marino of Onancock, Virginia.

The RAFT Communities

This website, Task # 92.03 was funded by the Virginia Coastal Zone Management Program at the Department of Environmental Quality through Grant # NA17NOS4190152 
of the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, under the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, as amended. The views expressed
herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA, or any of its subagencies.

This project is currently a partnership between the Institute for Engagement & Negotiation at the University of Virginia, the Institute for Coastal Adaptation and Resilience at Old Dominion University, and the Center for Coastal Studies at Virginia Tech. The former Virginia Coastal Policy Center at the William & Mary Law School participated in this partnership from 2015 until June 2023.

 

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