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Bookmark or Share- How NYC’s Living Breakwaters could protect against future storms - Fast ...Living Breakwaters architect Pippa Brashear said other shoreline communities exposed to waves, damage and erosion could use a similar strategy. Projects in California, Washington state and Florida ...
- The Seas Are Rising. Could Oysters Protect Us? | The ... - The New YorkerAt SCAPE, she put together a plan, called Living Breakwaters, for protecting and reanimating Staten Island’s coastline. In 2014, the proposal earned the highest score in the billion-dollar ...
- Living Breakwaters - SCAPEWidely considered a model for climate-adaptive nature-based infrastructure, Living Breakwaters is a $111 million project with a layered approach to risk reduction—enhancing physical, ecological and social resilience along the South Shore of Staten Island.
- Understanding Living Shorelines - NOAA FisheriesA living shoreline is a protected, stabilized coastal edge made of natural materials such as plants, sand, or rock. Unlike a concrete seawall or other hard structure, which impede the growth of plants and animals, living shorelines grow over time.
- Ecological Coastal Protection: Pathways to Living ShorelinesThis research focuses on two types of coastal structures with different levels of landscape-based integrations to achieve environmental benefits: modified seawalls and breakwaters, and layered living shorelines (e.g. oyster reefs and seagrass mudflats).
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