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The Marsh Explorer allows the user to to conduct a high-level evaluation of marsh conditon metrics, and the Living Shoreline Explorer provides recommendations of living […]
Welcome to the New Jersey Bay Islands Restoration Planner–a decision-support tool for managing NJ’s bay islands from Metedeconk River south to Beach Haven / Little […]
Coastal flooding, from both extreme events and sea level rise, is one of the top management challenges facing U.S. coastal stakeholders today. The intensity of […]
With sea levels rising under global warming, dredge-and-fill programs are increasingly employed to protect coastal development from shoreline erosion. Such beach “nourishment” can bury shallow […]
Coastal inlets separate individual barrier islands or barrier spits and adjacent headlands (Hayes and Fitzgerald 2013). Inlets modify longshore transport and store sediment in flood […]
The central Portuguese coast is recognized as the region most vulnerable to coastal erosion in Portugal, with the actual loss of territory exceeding the forecasts […]
Mobile coastal dunes are of significant ecological importance both globally and locally. Yet a large portion of these dunes are disappearing due to encroachment of […]
This publication contains much helpful information on various economic techniques that are available by which to value wetland areas. The Guide draws out the importance […]
Wetlands are ecosystems that provide numerous goods and services that have an economic value, notonly to the local population living in its periphery butalso to […]
Taking the estimated values of goods and services together, the total value of New Jersey’s natural capital appears to be about $20 billion per year […]