Stillman, C2019-06-192019-06-192019-06-18https://hdl.handle.net/1794/24644127 pages. Examining committee chair: Robert RibeUsing a study site in rural coastal Oregon (within the City of Coos Bay) this project generated a transferable process for rural coastal towns in need of efficient and pragmatic flood-mitigation plans. By observing the spatial relationships of inundation processes to their local context and analyzing how they change through time, this research identified critical failure points, a potential timeline for failures, pragmatic opportunities for flood mitigation, and locally relevant intervention options at the study site. The transferable framework requires researchers to identify and map inundation drivers such as sea-level rise, rainfall, and storm surge across the site for selected scenarios (current, 2030, 2050, and 2100). Next, associated flood control infrastructure, including levees and tidegates, are mapped. Relevant context, including buildings, land uses, roads, railways and any known temporal change is then added. Analyzing the resulting maps draws on local inundation, protections, and context to derive intervention opportunities for the study site. The impacts of sea level rise have drawn global attention and yet there is no agreed upon approach for how to plan for it. Cities have already begun confronting flooding from natural disasters, from elevated average high tides, and from land subsistence. Global models of climate change provide generalized information that must then be applied and corrected at the regional scale. Regional models then need to be mapped within their local spatial context to inform urban planning processes. The framework developed in this research offers a method for how to incorporate sea level rise, stormwater, and regional protections at a local planning scale.en-USCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USStormwaterClimate changeSea level risePlanningResilienceCoastal resilienceCoastal planningHazard mapCoastal floodFlood mitigationTerminal Project