Barbra Calantas, ESA’s Biological Resources and Land Management Practice Leader, shares timely guidance in a...
Climate Change Adaptation
Our team of engineers, scientists, planners, and policy analysts deliver climate change adaptation and resilience solutions at local, state, and global levels.
ESA is a leader in vulnerability and risk assessment, as well as integrating community health and ecosystem management into climate change adaptation strategies.
ESA has particular expertise in sea-level rise evaluation, flood hazard and erosion risk assessment and management, and nature-based solutions. We integrate traditional engineering expertise with an understanding of natural hydrologic processes to develop innovative, creative, and sustainable green and grey solutions.
Our Expertise Covers:
- Coastal zone engineering and management
- Community adaptation plans
- Ecosystem adaptation plans
- Public outreach and stakeholder engagement
- Sea-level rise impacts and adaptation
- Vulnerability and risk assessments
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has finalized a new regulatory framework for evaluating...
On Tuesday, July 21, ESA Federal Strategy Director Eric Beightel testified before the U.S. House...
Over the past two years, federal agencies have revisited several long-established interpretations of environmental statutes...
From surveying California tiger salamanders to relocating burrowing owls and preparing for rattlesnake encounters, see...
Assembly Bill 2051 seeks to address the permitting and regulatory coordination challenges facing coastal resilience projects,...