Innovations in Coastline Management With Natural and Nature-Based Features (NNBF): Lessons Learned From Three Case Studies
Coastal communities around the world are facing increased coastal flooding and shoreline erosion from factors such as sea-level rise and unsustainable development practices. Coastal engineers and managers often rely on gray infrastructure such as seawalls, levees and breakwaters, but are increasingl...
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| author | Cindy M. Palinkas Philip Orton Michelle A. Hummel William Nardin Ariana E. Sutton-Grier Lora Harris Matthew Gray Ming Li Donna Ball Donna Ball Kelly Burks-Copes Meri Davlasheridze Matthieu De Schipper Douglas A. George Dave Halsing Coraggio Maglio Joseph Marrone S. Kyle McKay Heidi Nutters Katherine Orff Marcel Taal Alexander P. E. Van Oudenhoven William Veatch Tony Williams |
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| description | Coastal communities around the world are facing increased coastal flooding and shoreline erosion from factors such as sea-level rise and unsustainable development practices. Coastal engineers and managers often rely on gray infrastructure such as seawalls, levees and breakwaters, but are increasingly seeking to incorporate more sustainable natural and nature-based features (NNBF). While coastal restoration projects have been happening for decades, NNBF projects go above and beyond coastal restoration. They seek to provide communities with coastal protection from storms, erosion, and/or flooding while also providing some of the other natural benefits that restored habitats provide. Yet there remain many unknowns about how to design and implement these projects. This study examines three innovative coastal resilience projects that use NNBF approaches to improve coastal community resilience to flooding while providing a host of other benefits: 1) Living Breakwaters in New York Harbor; 2) the Coastal Texas Protection and Restoration Study; and 3) the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project in San Francisco Bay. We synthesize findings from these case studies to report areas of progress and illustrate remaining challenges. All three case studies began with innovative project funding and framing that enabled expansion beyond a sole focus on flood risk reduction to include multiple functions and benefits. Each project involved stakeholder engagement and incorporated feedback into the design process. In the Texas case study this dramatically shifted one part of the project design from a more traditional, gray approach to a more natural hybrid solution. We also identified common challenges related to permitting and funding, which often arise as a consequence of uncertainties in performance and long-term sustainability for diverse NNBF approaches. The Living Breakwaters project is helping to address these uncertainties by using detailed computational and physical modeling and a variety of experimental morphologies to help facilitate learning while monitoring future performance. This paper informs and improves future sustainable coastal resilience projects by learning from these past innovations, highlighting the need for integrated and robust monitoring plans for projects after implementation, and emphasizing the critical role of stakeholder engagement. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ed1317fb40a34465944553330afd21182022-12-22T00:10:01ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Built Environment2297-33622022-04-01810.3389/fbuil.2022.814180814180Innovations in Coastline Management With Natural and Nature-Based Features (NNBF): Lessons Learned From Three Case StudiesCindy M. Palinkas0Philip Orton1Michelle A. Hummel2William Nardin3Ariana E. Sutton-Grier4Lora Harris5Matthew Gray6Ming Li7Donna Ball8Donna Ball9Kelly Burks-Copes10Meri Davlasheridze11Matthieu De Schipper12Douglas A. George13Dave Halsing14Coraggio Maglio15Joseph Marrone16S. Kyle McKay17Heidi Nutters18Katherine Orff19Marcel Taal20Alexander P. E. Van Oudenhoven21William Veatch22Tony Williams23Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge, MD, United StatesStevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, United StatesDepartment of Civil Engineeering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United StatesHorn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge, MD, United StatesEarth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, United StatesChesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Solomons, MD, United StatesHorn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge, MD, United StatesHorn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge, MD, United StatesSan Francisco Estuary Institute, Richmond, CA, United StatesSouth Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project, San Francisco, CA, United StatesUS Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston, TX, United StatesTexas A&M University atGalveston, Galveston, TX, United States0Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands1National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), San Francisco, CA, United StatesSouth Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project, San Francisco, CA, United StatesUS Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston, TX, United States2Arcadis, Long Island City, NY, United States3US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS, United States4San Francisco Estuary Partnership, San Francisco, CA, United States5Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States6Deltares, Delft, Netherlands7Institute of Environmental Sciences CML, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands8US Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans, LA, United States9Texas General Land Office, Austin, TX, United StatesCoastal communities around the world are facing increased coastal flooding and shoreline erosion from factors such as sea-level rise and unsustainable development practices. Coastal engineers and managers often rely on gray infrastructure such as seawalls, levees and breakwaters, but are increasingly seeking to incorporate more sustainable natural and nature-based features (NNBF). While coastal restoration projects have been happening for decades, NNBF projects go above and beyond coastal restoration. They seek to provide communities with coastal protection from storms, erosion, and/or flooding while also providing some of the other natural benefits that restored habitats provide. Yet there remain many unknowns about how to design and implement these projects. This study examines three innovative coastal resilience projects that use NNBF approaches to improve coastal community resilience to flooding while providing a host of other benefits: 1) Living Breakwaters in New York Harbor; 2) the Coastal Texas Protection and Restoration Study; and 3) the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project in San Francisco Bay. We synthesize findings from these case studies to report areas of progress and illustrate remaining challenges. All three case studies began with innovative project funding and framing that enabled expansion beyond a sole focus on flood risk reduction to include multiple functions and benefits. Each project involved stakeholder engagement and incorporated feedback into the design process. In the Texas case study this dramatically shifted one part of the project design from a more traditional, gray approach to a more natural hybrid solution. We also identified common challenges related to permitting and funding, which often arise as a consequence of uncertainties in performance and long-term sustainability for diverse NNBF approaches. The Living Breakwaters project is helping to address these uncertainties by using detailed computational and physical modeling and a variety of experimental morphologies to help facilitate learning while monitoring future performance. This paper informs and improves future sustainable coastal resilience projects by learning from these past innovations, highlighting the need for integrated and robust monitoring plans for projects after implementation, and emphasizing the critical role of stakeholder engagement.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbuil.2022.814180/fullcoastal resiliencyrestorationstakeholder engagementNNBF designNNBF monitoring |
| spellingShingle | Cindy M. Palinkas Philip Orton Michelle A. Hummel William Nardin Ariana E. Sutton-Grier Lora Harris Matthew Gray Ming Li Donna Ball Donna Ball Kelly Burks-Copes Meri Davlasheridze Matthieu De Schipper Douglas A. George Dave Halsing Coraggio Maglio Joseph Marrone S. Kyle McKay Heidi Nutters Katherine Orff Marcel Taal Alexander P. E. Van Oudenhoven William Veatch Tony Williams Innovations in Coastline Management With Natural and Nature-Based Features (NNBF): Lessons Learned From Three Case Studies Frontiers in Built Environment coastal resiliency restoration stakeholder engagement NNBF design NNBF monitoring |
| title | Innovations in Coastline Management With Natural and Nature-Based Features (NNBF): Lessons Learned From Three Case Studies |
| title_full | Innovations in Coastline Management With Natural and Nature-Based Features (NNBF): Lessons Learned From Three Case Studies |
| title_fullStr | Innovations in Coastline Management With Natural and Nature-Based Features (NNBF): Lessons Learned From Three Case Studies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Innovations in Coastline Management With Natural and Nature-Based Features (NNBF): Lessons Learned From Three Case Studies |
| title_short | Innovations in Coastline Management With Natural and Nature-Based Features (NNBF): Lessons Learned From Three Case Studies |
| title_sort | innovations in coastline management with natural and nature based features nnbf lessons learned from three case studies |
| topic | coastal resiliency restoration stakeholder engagement NNBF design NNBF monitoring |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbuil.2022.814180/full |
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