Coastal Planning and Management

• Regional planning strategies
• Balancing the managed system with the natural system
• Integrating economics, natural resources, navigation, and community resiliency with restoration and protection
• Integrating "risk and uncertainty" into planning and implementation
• Addressing trade-offs, uncertainties and contrary views of stakeholders
• Integrating adaptive management (and the best science & engineering) into project planning and implementation
• Project prioritization strategies
• Sustaining communities and preserving our culture
• Meeting the future needs of navigation
• Information Management
• Data availability and management
• Enhancing communication between planning, policy, science stakeholders, and the public
• Operation and maintenance