The N-EWN Knowledge Series: a continuing education series about Engineering With Nature

Adapting shoreline stabilization infrastructure and approaches to sea-level rise will require measures that improve federal, state, and local governance mechanisms; promote nature-based management practices; and change property owner behavior that affects coastal areas.  This presentation focuses on shoreline stabilization law and policy, specifically the ocean-facing and estuarine protection laws in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic states.  The presentation will provide an overview of important distinctions between how we manage ocean-facing and estuarine-facing shorelines as well as a wide variety of values and interests driving them.  It will conclude with a focus on living shorelines, describing how increasing the use of living shorelines will require policy innovation and new approaches to shoreline management at the state level.