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Inside The Nudge Unit

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The Role of Oyster Reefs in Flood Defenses

Oyster reefs can be part of an integrated solution to the risk created by climate change and rising water levels, more intense storms. Oyster reefs are a hard, wave-breaking structure that can both break waves in the short term, but also as sea level rise continues,. Those reef structures will continue to grow with rising water levels. The key thing here is that this approach is adaptive. Unlike a seawall that needs to be repaired, raised, rebuilt, these oyster beds respond themselves to changes. They show us when you're dealing with a complex system like a harbor or city, policymakers need to be careful about just trying to solve the problem in front of them.

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