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Conserv Biol
May 2024
Institute of Resilient Infrastructure Systems, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
People often modify the shoreline to mitigate erosion and protect property from storm impacts. The 2 main approaches to modification are gray infrastructure (e.g.
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March 2024
Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Sci Total Environ
January 2024
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service, Office of Response and Restoration, Assessment and Restoration Division, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115, United States of America.
The Lower Duwamish River is a highly industrialized waterway flowing into the densely urbanized Puget Sound waterfront of Seattle, Washington, USA. The river has been profoundly altered from its natural state following more than a century of channelization, recurrent dredging, shoreline armoring, and pollution discharges. As part of a Natural Resource Damage Assessment addressing historical pollution at three designated Superfund sites (i.
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November 2022
IHCantabria - Instituto de Hidráulica Ambiental de La Universidad de Cantabria, Universidad de Cantabria, Parque Científico y Tecnológico de Cantabria (PCTCAN), C/ Isabel Torres 10, Santander, Spain.
Intertidal estuarine habitats (e.g., saltmarshes and tidal flats) provide important ecosystem services to society, including coastal protection, food provision and C sequestration.
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March 2022
Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia, USA, 201 N. Milledge Avenue, Athens, GA, 30602, USA. Electronic address:
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.
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