Our Homestead Leadership/HILT has been Awarded this GRANT
Climate Adaptation and Coastal Community Resiliency
Working from two recently developed resilience plans, one from the Native Hawaiian group Waiehu Kou 3—which has included projections for climate change in its plan—and the other from the Hawaiian Islands Land Trust (HILT), the investigators seek to reduce flood risks and hazards to a stretch of Hawaiian coastline-
Our Region of Focus is the Waiehu/Waihe'e Coastline of Maui
Viewed holistically the management of our coast line, offshore reefs, mauka watershed and transitional wetlands are all part of our approach to community resiliency. Flood mitigation is important to us but is just a piece of a broader strategy to effectively manage and channel that resiliency.
