Coastal Resource Planning and Management
Local, comprehensive coastal resource planning is an effective and necessary tool for managing natural resources for recreational, ecological, commercial and industrial use in accordance with local and state regulations, policies and goals.
GZA supports communities, beach associations, harbor management commissions, conservation organizations, state agencies and others with the development and implementation of coastal resource plans, helping them to preserve and maintain local resources, community and business interests along the waterfront. This is accomplished through an interdisciplinary team of planners, engineers, ecologists and grant specialists.
Coastal Resource Planning and Management
- Beach management plans
- Coastal land-use planning
- Harbor management planning
- Adaptive land management
- Community shoreline planning
- Waterfront access planning and shoreline connectivity networks
- Recreational resource protection
- Hazard vulnerability assessments
- FEMA flood mapping
- Coastal flood pathway and inundation planning
- Sea-level rise adaptation strategies
Technical & Design Services
- Beach and dune surveys
- Coastal bluff assessments
- Coastal modeling and metocean design
- Erosion analyses and sediment transport studies
- Beach nourishment design
- Dune restoration and maintenance
- Living shorelines, marsh creation, and marsh enhancement
- Hybrid shoreline solutions integrating nature-based and hardened shoreline protection elements
- Data driven adaptive management and monitoring – geomorphic and vegetation change forecasting, predictive terrain and shoreline evolution, probability based metocean analysis
- Site civil engineering and stormwater management
Environmental, Policy & Community Support
- Ecological surveys, habitat assessments, biological monitoring, benthic surveys, and baseline documentation
- Wetland delineation, coastal resource mapping, regulatory boundary confirmation, and functional assessments
- Coastal policy guidance, regulatory alignment, resilience standards, and municipal coastal frameworks
- Stakeholder workshops, community visioning, resilience planning, and public-facing coastal education
- Public outreach, communication strategies, public meetings, and consensus building
- Funding strategy support, partnerships, cost recovery planning, and implementation roadmaps
- Grant writing and application support
- Environmental engineering
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Matt began his career with GZA in 2004 after completing his undergraduate and graduate studies at University of Rhode Island…
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