This guide gives a framework for designing beach nourishment projects and weighing the trade-offs between different sediment sources. Other topics include estimating the life expectancy and slope adjustment for a project.

This guide encompasses a variety of coral reef damage mitigation strategies, including ways to remediate the impacts of oil spills, dredging, sedimentation, and pollutant-laden stormwater runoff. The guide also contains a comprehensive list of all federal statutes that apply to coral reefs.

This guide covers all the main facets of dune restoration, including invasive species removal, constructing boardwalks, and rebuilding dunes. The authors also include a troubleshooting section, monitoring advice, and information about the relationship between dune restoration and beach nourishment.

This resource focuses on mitigating risks associated with coral transplantation. Topics covered include disease transmission, ecological concerns, and genetic considerations.

This site houses three USGS mapping tools: one to view coastal flooding/exposure data, coasta, groundwater depth data, and shoreline change data depending on different hazard scenarios. It also includes a multi-hazard viewer that predicts the effects of different sea level rise, storm, and coastal management scenarios on coastal areas.

EPA's Healthy Watersheds Program vision is to protect and maintain the aquatic ecological integrity of watersheds and supporting habitat networks to ensure that future generations may enjoy these resources and the social and economic benefits that they provide.The site includes several resource to design outreach plans, locate existing watershed restoration projects, and guidance on developing a watershed health index to evaluate your own watershed. 

This document discusses background on coastal barrier island systems, the disruption of coastal sediment supply resulting, the physical and biological impacts of sediment removal and placement on benthic habitats, impacts of sediment removal and placement on fish and other marine species, changes in migratory bird nesting and foraging habitats resulting from sediment removal and placement, the ong-term impacts of sediment removal and placement on physical coastal resiliency, and the data necessary for monitoring/assessing these projects. 

Includes a table of NBS, their average installation cost, average maintenance cost, and key cost considerations

This web-based tool creates visuals that capture lake level changes that range from six feet above to six feet below historical long-term average water levels in the Great Lakes. Potential shoreline and coastal impacts are also provided. This information can be used to determine appropriate preparations, including zoning restrictions, infrastructure improvements, and habitat conservation.

Viewing living shorelines through the nature-based solutions paradigm, this guidebook provides techniques to create living shorelines. The guidebook contains additional information about the permitting steps and funding opportunities available.

This technical document delves into the hydrodynamic, terrestrial, and ecological parameters that impact living shoreline creation projects. Additional topics include regulatory considerations and invasive species management.

This training encompasses the technical aspects of implementing and maintaining living shoreline creation projects. The authors provide in-depth design guidelines and information about the permitting process.

Review of salt marsh restoration practices with a special emphasis on adaptative management for sea level rise. Topics covered include erosion reduction, modelling sea level rise, and engineering considerations for salt marsh restoration.

Focusing on the policy tools needed to implement an assisted marsh migration project, this website helps weigh the social and ecological concerns related to marsh migration. Additional topics covered include regulatory considerations, infrastructure removal, and planning tools.

This guide helps project managers make sense of the variety of marsh migration modelling software available. The authors discuss the pros and cons of using models as well as the factors the determine marsh migration.

The National Mitigation Investment Strategy is a single national strategy for advancing mitigation investment to reduce risks posed by and increase the nation’s resilience to natural hazards, such as sea level rise, droughts, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and earthquakes. This portfolio showcases mitigation projects to provide practitioners with examples of activities that integrate the Investment Strategy’s goals and reflect the guiding principles of the Disaster Recovery Reform Act of 2018 (DRRA).

The purpose of this document is to provide a resource that communities can use to identify and evaluate a range of potential mitigation actions for reducing risk to natural hazards and disasters. The focus of this document is mitigation, which is action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to hazards. The document discusses 16 natural hazards, and describes mitigation strategies across several different aspects of mitigation within them. These include regulations requirements through FEMA, education prorgams, and natural systems protection (NBS) ideas. 

This monitoring protocol includes an optional implementation data sheet to track project implementation, landowner satisfaction, and landowner compliance for offices with no standardized implementation monitoring protocol, an effectiveness assessment data sheet to assess progress toward meeting the specific biological and/or physical objectives established for a project, and guidance and data sheets for collecting and documenting digital images to substantiate assessments of project success. 

This page links ot the social vulnerability layer of the national risk index map. As a consequence enhancing risk component of the National Risk Index, a Social Vulnerability score and rating represent the relative level of a community’s social vulnerability compared to all other communities at the same level. A community’s Social Vulnerability score measures its national rank or percentile. A higher Social Vulnerability score results in a higher Risk Index score.

This resource is a compilation of every beach nourishment project in the United States. Equipped with a map to help navigate the projects, the database includes the cost of beach nourishment projects as well as how many nourishment events have been completed. .