When Armoring and Nourishment Are No Longer Enough: Managed Retreat and Coastal Adaptation in California
Coastal communities face a growing mismatch between shorelines that naturally move and development built as if they do not.California makes this tension especially visible.Homes, roads, rail lines, airports, wastewater facilities, public access, and other infrastructure occupy beaches, bluffs, bays, and low-lying shorelines that are already shaped by erosion, flooding,
Authors
- Gary Griggs (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2867-8855)
- Kiki Patsch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3238-8869)
Institutions
- University of California, Santa Cruz (US)
- California State University, Channel Islands (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Cambridge Prisms Coastal Futures
- Published
- 2026-10-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1017/cft.2026.10057
- Primary Topic
- Coastal and Marine Dynamics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00