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Planning is key

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Climate and emergency management planning help us …

• Understand potential risks
• Adopt sensitive measures to address those risks
• Set priorities
• Improve responses when our cultural resources are impacted

Historic preservation needs to be integrated into municipal, county and state plans. The periods during and after a disaster are crucial and do not allow time for deliberation. Effective planning gives responders and agencies a strategy for approaching historic resources. Beyond individual disasters, resilience strategies protect these historic resources from long-term threats.

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State planning

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HPO participates in a variety of climate change and disaster planning initiatives. These help us understand how natural and human-caused hazards impact historic resources. Our office also ensures these broader strategic plans consider historic resources.

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=”yes”][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1709068382872{margin-bottom: 32px !important;}”][info-box-shortcode icon=”fas fa-globe” title=”DEP’s Strategic Climate Action Plan” buttonlink=”https://deptest.nj.gov/climatechange/resilience/resilience-action-plans/” targetlink=”true”]These reports complement the statewide Climate Change Resilience Strategy. They examine the effectiveness of the existing statewide recommendations and recommend further ways to develop this strategy.[/info-box-shortcode][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1709068390631{margin-bottom: 32px !important;}”][info-box-shortcode icon=”fas fa-globe” title=”NJ Hazard Mitigation Plan” buttonlink=”https://nj.gov/njoem/mitigation/hazard-mitigation-plans.shtml” targetlink=”true”]This plan outlines a strategy to reduce risks from hazards and serves as the basis for prioritizing future project funding.[/info-box-shortcode][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1709068397928{margin-bottom: 32px !important;}”][info-box-shortcode title=”NJ Historic Preservation Plan” buttonlink=”https://deptest.nj.gov/hpo/programs/planning/”]The NJ Historic Preservation Plan includes a new statewide goal for climate and disaster planning. Learn about the planning process and how Goal 4 outlines strategies to increase integration of historic preservation into disaster planning and resilience.[/info-box-shortcode][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]

Local planning

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Historic resources need protection in community-level climate change and disaster planning. This involves identifying local resources and their unique needs and threats. Incomplete, outdated and/or inaccurate historic resource inventory data hinders local planning. Our office assists communities throughout the state in developing stronger local inventories.

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