PROMOTING COASTAL RESILIENCE THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS AND PLANNING: COMMUNITIES, SEA GRANT PROGRAMS, SERPPAS, AND MILITARY INSTALLATIONS

REPORT IN BRIEF

With similar and overlapping goals to help installations and communities on the coast be more resilient in the face of hurricanes, sea-level rise, flooding and more, SERPPAS and the Georgia GA Sea Grant Law Program hosted a meeting in August 2019 titled Collaborating Towards Coastal Resilience in the Southeast, with the overall goal to understand challenges and explore opportunities to collaborate on coastal resilience to benefit military readiness and the surrounding communities. The meeting was also designed to build a critical link among Sea Grant programs, military installations, and the regional natural resources leaders in the Southeast.

The article, written to capture the outcomes of the meeting, demonstrates part of this achievement by outlining learnings that happened across the different sectors of participating agencies, organizations and experts. The various tools, resources and expertise that both the military and the Sea Grant Network bring to the coastal resilience table are explored and described in this article.

AUTHORS

AMELIA STEVENS, SHANA JONES, ADDIE THORNTON