This project, led by Laura Moore (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and funded by the National Science Foundation’s Coastlines and People program, is a Research Coordination Network (RCN) to address grand challenges in coastal resilience. Developed coastal environments are shaped by interactions between human activities and natural processes. Mitigation and recovery strategies that promote adaptation at the time scale of storm events can be counterproductive over longer timescales. C-CoAST has sponsored a series of community listening sessions and workshops to integrate coastal researcher, stakeholder, and practitioner expertise, building capacity for a comprehensive understanding of the human-natural coastal system with the goal of steering away from future outcomes that communities may want to avoid, and toward outcomes they deem more desirable.

Related products include:

• Gallery walk experiences synthesizing findings from community listening sessions
• A coastal resilience research agenda co-produced by researchers, stakeholders and practitioners
• A network of engaged researchers, stakeholders and practitioners, which provides a foundation for co-produced coastal resilience research that advances fundamental understanding while supporting communities and agencies working toward resilient futures (e.g., a recent adaptation project, led by Moore in collaboration with project partners from the National Park Service, the NC Department of Transportation, Hyde County and the energy industry)

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Research Participants & Partners

Laura Moore (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)