Strategic Plan Strategies - Funding Priorities
Promote Innovation and Science-based Decision-making
Possible Strategies for Objective #1:
- Confirm coastal resource manager’s research, information and technology needs to address priority management issues.
- Uncover pertinent land use and habitat change research/state of the science and produce a state of the science series that aligns applicable research with state-by-state priority management needs and translates it into meaningful applications.
- Communicate coastal management needs to public, non-profit and academic entities.
- Document and implement effective ways to improve the dissemination of science to coastal managers.
- Respond to priority state research needs by translating and delivering research to state resource agencies in a manner they find helpful and responsive.
Possible Strategies for Objective #2:
- Work in consultation with coastal managers to articulate a clear statement of managers needs and communicate those needs to the IOOS regional associations.
- Support activities that integrate traditional environmental monitoring with ocean observing data and information to create products needed by coastal decision-makers.
- Provide training and technical materials to coastal decision-makers so that they can more effectively address the nation’s pressing estuarine, coastal and marine management needs.
- Develop and disseminate innovative and environmentally sensitive responses to ocean, bay and riverine shoreline erosion and management.
- Identify effective state responses to seawalls, affects on adjacent properties, and owner responsibilities
- Coalesce effective local and states approaches to building setbacks in erosion areas & notification requirements
- Disseminate stabilization alternatives to shoreline hardening
- Promote the beneficial use of dredged materials for restoration purposes and overcome institutional impediments to their application
- Assist communities address projected sea level rise
- Prepare regional sediment management plans that reduce sediment loads and corresponding contaminants, offer best practices for landowners and connect watersheds to the coast.
- Respond to the chronic and cumulative loss of coastal habitats by sharing effective responses (e.g., planning, design, regulatory, visual assessments, socio-economic trends/studies, mitigation measures, etc.) to the cumulative impacts of coastal development.
- Develop and deliver a mid-career coastal training program that enables coastal managers to remain current with academic and management advances.
- Establish a compendium of peer-reviewed case studies and examples of innovative or successful coastal management practices. Elements might include web-based searchable portals; institutional incentives, mechanisms, and standards; and links to a network that can assist with adaptation and tailoring. Sources for lists of key experts, important papers, case studies and lessons learned documentation is also needed.
- Establish and deliver a workshop series on coastal management and emerging technologies every 2-3 years that brings together practicing coastal managers, applied coastal management technology people, and pure technology people. (Results – learn from each other, match needs with desires, develop pilot projects, plan diffusion strategies for proven applications, etc.)
- Facilitate regional ocean management by creating an ongoing learning network of practitioners, academic and for-profit interests.
- Develop ocean governance technical assistance materials needed by practitioners. For example:
- Document and describe the value-added of regional efforts and conduct legal mechanism review and options paper.
- Develop materials on how states and other countries are addressing multiple use schemes for offshore and near-shore facility siting (e.g. wind, LNG, aquaculture, etc.)
- Document core principles for successful interstate and bi-national management and disseminate results
Promote Improved Stewardship of Coastal and Ocean Resources
Possible Strategies for Objective #1:
- Implement the 2003 National CoastWeek Strategic Communication Plan by creating a focused campaign based on national opinion polling. Set benchmarks for desired outcomes
- Build the capacity of the CoastWeek partners’ network to improve the effectiveness of CoastWeek.
- Create and sustain a coastal communicators’ network that enhances networking and the sharing of innovative approaches and materials that can be transferred elsewhere.
- Document innovative approaches used at the local level that effectively engages local people to care for their coast.
Possible Strategies for Objective #2:
- Engage the business community and work in partnership to enhance their coastal stewardship activities.
- Publicly recognize coastal leaders in the business community through awards programs and coastal celebrations such as an annual high profile ocean and coastal event in Washington.
Possible Strategies for Objective #3:
- Develop a national coalition of state, federal, non-profit and academic institutions and implement a 7-10 year national coastal awareness and communications strategy. Articulate goals, objectives, outcomes and timelines. Build on regional and national public opinion/awareness surveys to ensure the campaign messages that resonate with them.
- Promote the development and dissemination of coastal indicators and state of the environment reporting that helps the public understand the quality of their coastal resources and the issues affecting them.
Inspiring Innovation for Coastal and Ocean Protection
About the Coastal States Organization (CSO)