SNAPP TEAM:Advancing Coastal Defenses
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How and where can natural ecosystems provide effective flood risk reduction benefits?
Team Status:
ONGOING
Team Critical Challenge:
- Review and Identify advances that have been made in the use of natural defenses in policy and practice.
- Identify gaps in science, policy and practice that still limit the use of natural defenses
- Discover and develop innovative approaches to fill these gaps and expand the use of natural defense
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Leaders
Mike Beck
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of California, Santa Cruz
Glenn-Marie Lange
Senior Economist (World Bank) and Environment for Development Initiative
Senior Economist (World Bank) and Environment for Development Initiative
Iñigo Losada
Environmental Hydraulics Institute IH Cantabria
Environmental Hydraulics Institute IH Cantabria
Guillermo E. Franco
Guy Carpenter Co.
Guy Carpenter Co.
Members
Borja Reguero
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of California, Santa Cruz
Chip Cunliffe
AXA Insurance Co.
AXA Insurance Co.
Jane “Carter” Ingram
Pollination Group
Pollination Group
Jessica Kendall-Bar
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of California, Santa Cruz
Pelayo Menendez Fernandez
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of California, Santa Cruz
Siddharth Narayan
East Carolina University
East Carolina University
Todd S. Bridges
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers