Waterfront Conference 2015 -  Greener Shorelines for Resiliency and the Environment (panel)
Channel: Waterfront Alliance
Date: 2015-05-28

In order to restore, maintain, and conserve natural areas, incorporating nature-based features into shoreline design has gained considerable attention as an alternative to traditional, single-purpose, hard edges. Successfully deploying green shorelines using an information-based approach and realizing their resiliency, stabilization, and significant ecological benefits is an increasingly important issue for decision-makers for waterfront projects. How these shoreline strategies can be consistently used and measured for multiple benefits, including resiliency, is especially relevant, post-Superstorm Sandy, and in meeting regional harbor and estuary restoration goals. This panel will explore the range of natural and nature-based solutions that have been proposed, studied, and constructed in the New York region and what are the knowledge and regulatory gaps related to implementation.

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