Final Memo for Structured decision-making to facilitate multi-stakeholder coastal conservation and restoration under climate change uncertainties: case study on barrier islands of the northern Gulf of Mexico

Under the Mississippi Coastal Improvements Program (MsCIP), the US Army Corps of Engineers will place up to 22 million cubic yards (MCY) of sand to restore the physical integrity of Ship Island. In this project, structured decision making (SDM) was utilized to provide a formal process for analyzing decisions about repairing storm-related damages that may arise during island construction to maximize post-construction sustainability of the restoration effort. Decision support tools were developed to link restoration objectives and management options while accounting for tradeoffs between objectives and uncertainties such as storm events during and after construction. Expert elicitations, predictive models, and quantitative...

Tags: Data Visualization & Tools, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Extreme Weather, Science Tools For Managers, Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, All tags... Southeast CASC, Water, Coasts and Ice, Fewer tags

Structured decision-making to facilitate multi-stakeholder coastal conservation and restoration under climate change uncertainties: case study on barrier islands of the northern Gulf of Mexico (2015)

The goal of barrier island restoration in the northern Gulf of Mexico is to restore barrier island morphology using sediment to support the functions and habitats the islands provide. Barrier island restoration typically involves placement of sediment either directly on the island footprint or within the littoral zone for system transport and distribution. The re-engineering of barrier islands presents numerous challenges and uncertainties associated with climate change induced hurricanes/storms and other dynamic components of the system such as sediment availability and erosional trends. The goal of this study was to use a collaborative SDM approach to develop two Bayesian decision network models (DMs) for restoration...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Data Visualization & Tools, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Extreme Weather, Gulf of Mexico, USA, Mississippi Coastal Improvements Program, All tags... Science Tools For Managers, Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, Ship Island, Mississippi, USA, Southeast CASC, Water, Coasts and Ice, adaptive management, barrier islands, decision support methods, ecosystem management, Fewer tags

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The goal of barrier island restoration in the northern Gulf of Mexico is to restore barrier island morphology using sediment to support the functions and habitats the islands provide. Barrier island restoration typically involves placement of sediment either directly on the island footprint or within the littoral zone for system transport and distribution. The re-engineering of barrier islands presents numerous challenges and uncertainties associated with climate change induced hurricanes/storms and other dynamic components of the system such as sediment availability and erosional trends. The goal of this study was to use a collaborative SDM approach to develop two Bayesian decision network models (DMs) for restoration...

Types: Citation; Tags: Data Visualization & Tools, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Extreme Weather, Gulf of Mexico, USA, Mississippi Coastal Improvements Program, All tags... Science Tools For Managers, Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, Ship Island, Mississippi, USA, Southeast CASC, Water, Coasts and Ice, adaptive management, barrier islands, decision support methods, ecosystem management, Fewer tags

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The goal of barrier island restoration in the northern Gulf of Mexico is to restore barrier island morphology using sediment to support the functions and habitats the islands provide. Barrier island restoration typically involves placement of sediment either directly on the island footprint or within the littoral zone for system transport and distribution. The re-engineering of barrier islands presents numerous challenges and uncertainties associated with climate change induced hurricanes/storms and other dynamic components of the system such as sediment availability and erosional trends. The goal of this study was to use a collaborative SDM approach to develop two Bayesian decision network models (DMs) for restoration...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Data Visualization & Tools, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Extreme Weather, Gulf of Mexico, USA, Mississippi Coastal Improvements Program, All tags... Science Tools For Managers, Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, Ship Island, Mississippi, USA, Southeast CASC, Water, Coasts and Ice, adaptive management, barrier islands, decision support methods, ecosystem management, Fewer tags

Use of structured decision-making to explicitly incorporate environmental process understanding in management of coastal restoration projects: Case study on barrier islands of the northern Gulf of Mexico

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Adaptive management, Barrier islands, Data Visualization & Tools, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Ecosystem restoration, All tags... Extreme Weather, Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi Coastal Improvements Program, Science Tools For Managers, Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, Southeast CASC, Structured decision-making, Water, Coasts and Ice, Fewer tags