Supporting Stronger Futures

ERG is a national leader in adaptation and resilience across natural resource and built environment sectors including land use, transportation, coastal areas, natural lands, agricultural lands from national to local scales. We succeed by building bespoke teams that draw from all relevant ERG service areas—including Resilience Solutions, Organizational Effectiveness, Economic and Policy Analysis, Digital and Information Solutions, Facilities Planning and Engineering, and Clean Transportation—to assemble the breadth and depth of expertise needed for each project. Each team designs and implements an integrated approach tailored to the project needs. Examples of our resilience work for federal, state, and local agencies and non-profit organizations include the following:

• Resilience Assessments – For the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Pentagon, ERG designed an assessment framework and conducted resilience assessments for facilities across the country, including project recommendations and prioritization approach to reduce risks.
• Accelerating the Pace and Scale of Nature-Based Approaches in California – ERG has been supporting The Nature Conservancy, Mariposa County, and the State of California in identifying approaches to advance large-scale projects to meet California’s goals for natural and working lands.
• Vermont’s Municipal Vulnerability Indicators Tool – ERG worked with Vermont state agencies, municipalities, regional organizations, and community groups to identify indicators and design a tool to help municipalities assess vulnerability and resilience across the state.
• Assessing How Extreme Weather Impacts the Mobility of Vulnerable Populations – With other team members, ERG is helping the Transportation Research Board develop a framework that transportation departments across the country can use to integrate infrastructure and community resilience into their plans, policies, and priorities.
• ResilientMass Plan – ERG supported a comprehensive update of the Massachusetts adaptation and mitigation plan to improve the science and projections and risk assessment and expand the plan to include sustainability, and community and neighborhood considerations.
• Resilient Lands Strategy for Sonoma County, California – To develop Sonoma County’s first-ever natural and working lands plan, we convened and worked collaboratively with advisory groups, farmers, community organizations, tribes, and county departments to identify strategies to increase resilience.
• Regional Shoreline Adaptation Plan – For the Bay Conservation and Development Commission which serves as the Coastal Zone Management Agency for the San Francisco Bay, ERG was part of a team that designed resilience guidelines to support local jurisdictions in developing Subregional Shoreline Adaptation Plans that are resilient, sustainable, and effective for building regional and local economic and ecological strength.