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Restoration and Nature-Based Solutions - NCCOS - NCCOS Coastal Science ...
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Restoration and Nature-Based Solutions Coastal storms, flooding, and rising seas combined with loss of habitat and biodiversity threaten coastal ...
Research Reveals the Potential of Nature-Based Solutions for Increasing ...
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Evaluating the Performance of Nature-Based Solutions: A Systematic Map January 8, 2025 Developing Coastal Dune Models Specific to California’s Coast ...
Evaluating the Performance of Nature-Based Solutions
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Nature-based solutions have additional benefits that these “hardened” traditional approaches do not, including: improved water quality, habitat ...
Restoration - NCCOS - National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
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Nature-based solutions involve the intentional use of natural habitats—beaches, dunes, islands, marshes, mangroves, and coral and oyster reefs—either ...
Quantifying Nature’s Defenses: Evaluating Wetlands as Nature-Based ...
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Nature-based solutions (NBS) like wetlands can serve as buffers against extreme weather events, functioning as sponges that absorb and slowly release ...
Synthesizing Evidence on the Performance of Nature-based Solutions for ...
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We summarized existing information on how nature-based solutions (NBS), actions working with nature to meet society’s and nature’s needs, help boost ...
InEvalTool: An Integrative Evaluation Toolkit for Hawaiian Nature-based ...
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Nature-based solutions (NBS) have great potential as adaptive responses to climate change, but they often face skepticism due to our lack of ...
Using nature-based solutions to restore and protect the coast
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Using nature-based solutions to restore and protect the coast. Published on: 01/25/2024; Science Area(s): Social Media; Our scientists are exploring ...
Supporting Equitable Nature-based Solutions for Flood Mitigation
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Nature-based solutions (NBS) are gaining increasing support at international, federal, and local levels as strategies to reduce flooding and build ...
Assessing Nature Based Solutions to Mitigate Flood Impacts and Enhance ...
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In particular, they need clear evaluations of policy changes, nature based solutions (NBS) and conventional flood protection approaches to inform what ...
Partnering to Advance Use of Nature-Based Solutions in Cold Regions
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Coastal habitats, like marshes, reefs, and islands, also known as natural infrastructure or nature-based solutions, have an inherent ability to reduce ...
New Report Presents Framework for Advancing the Practice of Nature ...
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Nature-based solutions are defined as native habitats such as islands, dunes, marshes or reefs, which have the ability to reduce impacts from coastal ...
New Research Describes Performance of Nature-based Solution at Swan ...
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One of the more significant impediments to the widespread adoption of Nature-based Solutions (NBS) for coastal protection is a lack of empirical ...
NCCOS PROJECT - NCCOS Coastal Science Website
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There is a national shift in preferred coastal protection measures from traditional hardened coastal structures to natural and nature-based based ...
California Coastal Adaptation Engineering Workshop to Address the ...
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The Coastal Adaptation Engineering Workshop was held to advance attendee knowledge of the opportunities and challenges of applying nature-based ...
Advancing Natural Solutions to Sea Level Rise Impacts for Improved ...
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The project will advance the state of nature-based solutions guidance available to coastal managers and planners statewide by informing the actions of ...
Exploring Nature-Based Features in Cold Regions: Preserving the History ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/exploring-nature-based-features-in-cold-regions-preserving-the-history-of-saint-croix-island-maine/
A new story map highlights the partnership between NCCOS and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Engineering With Nature Ⓡ (EWN Ⓡ) Program to ...
We're assessing the environmental and economic tradeoffs of different ...
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We’re assessing the environmental and economic tradeoffs of different nature-based solutions and traditional infrastructure for backshore dune ...
Developing Coastal Dune Models Specific to California’s Coast
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However, if carefully planned, these habitats also have the potential to become nature based solutions that mitigate flood damage and provide ...
Oregon Researchers Engage Decision-makers to Support More Resilient ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/oregon-researchers-engage-decision-makers-to-support-more-resilient-coastal-communities-and-habitats/
Evaluating the Performance of Nature-Based Solutions: A Systematic Map January 8, 2025 Developing Coastal Dune Models Specific to California’s Coast ...