Towards principles and policy levers for advancing living shorelines.

Living shorelines are often better alternatives to stabilize shorelines and reduce dangerous erosion compared to traditional hard armoring practices such as bulkheads and seawalls. Increasing the use of living shorelines will require policy innovation and new approaches to shoreline management, however. Informed by a comparative legal analysis, this article identifies "policy levers" through four categories that demonstrate critical aspects of the human dimension in the estuarine management context that, to greater and lesser extents, promote or inhibit the implementation of living shorelines.