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Selecting strategies

As you have learned in this course, combined or "hybrid" strategies often offer greater protection (and at lower cost) than single strategies. In preparation for the planning session, your boss has asked you to assemble a short list of three structural strategies that can be combined to protect shorelines in the Norfolk area from four different hazards: erosion, wave action, acute storm surge flooding, and chronic sea level rise flooding.

On the below answer sheet, identify three structural strategies that could be combined to protect against all four hazards. For each strategy, list which of the four types of hazards it would protect against (keeping in mind that each strategy may protect against more than one hazard). The "possible benefits" section of the table of structural strategies from the second section of this module ("What strategies can stakeholders' use to prepare?") can help you identify which strategies will protect against each type of hazard. Remember that when combined, your three chosen strategies must protect against all four types of hazards.

Name of structural strategyHazards protected against
(erosion, wave action, storm surge flooding, sea level rise flooding)
1)
2)
3)

Your boss has also asked you to identify a single, non-structural strategy to complement the three structural strategies you have chosen and further reduce coastal vulnerability.

First, choose a non-structural strategy:

Add your answers to your worksheet.

Then in a short paragraph (about five sentences), describe at least three ways in which your chosen non-structural strategy would work in combination with the three structural strategies to reduce exposure to the four hazards:

Add your answers to your worksheet.

These materials are part of a collection of classroom-tested modules and courses developed by InTeGrate. The materials engage students in understanding the earth system as it intertwines with key societal issues. The collection is freely available and ready to be adapted by undergraduate educators across a range of courses including: general education or majors courses in Earth-focused disciplines such as geoscience or environmental science, social science, engineering, and other sciences, as well as courses for interdisciplinary programs.
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