Nature-based Adaptation: Multi-benefit strategies for the SF Bay Shoreline

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The San Francisco Estuary faces complex challenges for communities and nature, including improving water quality while also protecting shoreline habitats, infrastructure, and frontline communities from sea level rise and flooding. Policy drivers at the local, state, and federal level all push toward the use of nature-based approaches that incorporate green solutions at the shoreline at rapid pace to meet the urgent needs of our region. Meanwhile, centering community voices and building trust requires patient and purposeful relationship building. So how do we speed up the pace of adaptation while slowing down the intentional process of equity-centered community engagement?

This talk will highlight innovative nature-based shoreline adaptation projects from across the SF Bay that are putting people and nature first. The talk will highlight the ways communities and Tribes are partnering with public entities to co-creating solutions, including the Oro Loma Living Laboratory, Palo Alto Horizontal Levee and First Mile Horizontal Levee.

Heidi Nutters, Senior Program Manager, leads Climate Resilience programming including the Transforming Urban Water Initiative. Core focus areas include collaborative process, advancing on the ground nature-based shoreline adaptation projects and integrating racial equity into the Partnership’s projects.

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