Dialogue + Design Associates facilitates the Living Shoreline Collaborative (LSC) with the James River Association.
The Living Shoreline Collaborative builds healthy, connected, and abundant living shorelines through practitioner, local government, and community partnerships to increase resilience.
The mission of the Living Shoreline Collaborative is to provide access to best practices, information and data to ensure thriving living shorelines through education, outreach, monitoring, training and implementation with a network of partners and communities in the James Watershed.
LSC GOALS
- Build and share knowledge about project performance to learn what best practices have greatest success for shoreline stabilization and water quality protection.
- Increase capacity of all collaborative partners and practitioners to implement living shorelines through a community of practice with consistent training, mentoring and shared resources.
- Build relationships, increase awareness, and identify and respond to community concerns where shoreline protection, resilience and sea level rise adaptation needs are greatest, particularly in high-risk areas.
- Elevate acceptance and implementation of living shorelines among citizens, local governments and shoreline professionals through increasing outreach, awareness, and filling funding gaps.
Increase collaboration and strengthen partnerships through developing an effective network of Living Shoreline Collaborative members.
Visit the website here: www.jamesrivershorelines.org/