The RAND Corporation and Happold Consulting, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, are currently conducting an integrated, participatory-based resiliency planning process focused on Jamaica Bay. This two-year effort is being conducted as part of the Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay (SRI), and includes the active participation of a series of local, state, and federal agency representatives serving on SRI’s Public Agency Council. The process is designed to consider innovative resiliency investments that could reduce future flood risk exposure while also improving water quality, providing ecosystem services in and around the bay, and provide benefits across other important outcome metrics. The effort is also intended to inform the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) ongoing Reformulation Study for Jamaica Bay, authorized in the Sandy Supplemental Appropriations bill.
