Nature-based protections against storm surges
October 19, 2022
Donna Walcavage was featured in ASLA¡¯s The Dirt to talk about designing nature-based solutions to shore up climate change resiliency in coastal communities
When Superstorm Sandy pummeled the East coast in 2012, it caused over a hundred deaths and widespread property destruction totaling over $70 billion.
On the 10th anniversary of Sandy, Donna Walcavage, FASLA, principal at?Â鶹´«Ã½, along with Adrian Smith, team leader, Staten Island capital projects,?NYC Parks and Pippa Brashear, ASLA, principal at?SCAPE Landscape Architecture, explain how designing with nature can lead to more resilient shoreline communities. During?Climate Week NYC, they walked an online crowd of hundreds through?Living Breakwaters?and its companion project on land ¡ª the?Tottenville Shoreline Protection Project.
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