Case Study

Florida Experiment Lessens Shoreline Damage from High-Energy Waves

Click the link below to read Florida Experiment Lessens Shoreline Damage from High-Energy Waves as published by the NOAA Office for Coastal Management.
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Year
2022

Details

Hazards Addressed
Flooding – Coastal
Assets
Natural Areas and Wildlife

Click the link below to read Florida Experiment Lessens Shoreline Damage from High-Energy Waves as published by the NOAA Office for Coastal Management.

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Organizations to Contact

Florida’s Aquatic Preserves
Florida Department of Environmental Protection
Friends of the Guana Tolomato Matanzas Reserve

Relevant Options

Promote the protection and restoration of coastal natural systems and the creation of living shorelines at the regional scale. Identify open space that could function as water storage areas. Review existing legal, regulatory and policy frameworks that govern floodplain mapping, flood insurance and flood mitigation. Identify opportunities to improve their usefulness to reduce risks and increase

Steps to Resilience

Get Started
Understand Exposure
Assess Vulnerability & Risk
Investigate Options
Prioritize & Plan
Take Action
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Image Credit

Shoreline, Blowing Rocks Preserve, cropped. By Steven Martin, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/, via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevenm_61/50867977236/in/photostream/