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Nature-based solutions (NbS) are approaches that use nature and natural processes to address societal and environmental challenges. More specifically for US coasts, they provide interlinked benefits in hazard risk reduction, natural habitat, and social and equity needs (see Main Concepts). NbS are part of a suite of adaptation options to meet increasingly dire coastal adaptation needs. NbS encompass a wide range of interventions with design lives spanning from decades to centuries: they include projects from marshes, living shorelines, and “horizontal levees”, to coral reefs and clam gardens, and they can integrate gray infrastructure such as breakwaters and groins. However, no comprehensive effort to understand...
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