Enhancing Resilience Using Coastal Green Infrastructure

Coastal green infrastructure (CGI) plays an important role in making coastal communities more resilient to natural hazards. For example, tidal marshes reduce wave energy during storms and in doing so, reduce shoreline erosion and protect lives and property. The National Science and Technology Council’s Ecosystem-Service Assessment: Research Needs for Coastal Green Infrastructure report recommended areas to prioritize Federal research to integrate CGI into risk reduction and into resilience planning and decision making. Implementing those recommendations is a collaborative process that requires Federal and non-Federal partnerships. Please join the Office of Policy Analysis on May 9 as the panelists discuss different perspectives on using coastal green infrastructure to enhance coastal resilience.

Panelists:        

Charles Chesnutt – Coastal Engineer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 

Sarah Murdock – Director, US Climate Adaptation, The Nature Conservancy 

Tracy Rouleau – Deputy Chief Economist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Panel Moderator)

Ariana Sutton-Grier – Research Faculty, University of Maryland and Ecosystem Science Advisor, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration