USACE-ERDC Coastal System Resilience Research

Abstract

Coastal systems are complex and diverse landscapes that provide significant navigation, flood risk management, and ecosystem services to communities. However, they are influenced by episodic and long-term change from environmental and human-related constraints and hazards. The Coastal Systems Resilience (CSR) initiative integrates three separate but parallel research, development, and technology (RD and T) programs (Environmental Restoration, Navigation, and Flood Risk Management) within the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center to address resiliency of this dynamic region. The initiative utilizes new and existing science and engineering to define metrics and to create tools to quantify coastal system resilience of existing and proposed civil works activities. This special report describes the motivation and vision for coastal resilience research that was initiated in Fiscal Year 2016 under the CSR RD and T programs and provides a summary of work to date.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1065722

Entities

People

  • Julie Dean Rosati
  • Katherine F. Touzinsky

Organizations

  • Engineer Research and Development Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Climate Change
  • Coastal Management
  • Ecology
  • Ecosystems
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Environment
  • Flood Control
  • Flood Hazards
  • Floods
  • Research Facilities
  • Risk
  • Risk Management
  • Sea Level
  • Sea Level Rise
  • Storm Surges
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.