Property Owners

• Maximize the use of their property

• Aesthetics

• Maximum property value

• Effectiveness

• Cost

• Feasibility

• Handbook and/or online info

• Expert/consultant

• Government regulator

• Neighbors

• Flood zone maps

• Individual’s property,as well as neighbors’ property

Note: Large public property owners can have broader geographical influence.

Experts and Consultants (includes government scientists and engineers)

• Satisfy the client

• Make a prof it

• Maintain credibility

• Knowledge of shoreline protection options (Structural and nonstructural)

• Feasibility (i.e., ease of permitting)

• Physics, geomorphology, and ecology

• Professional networks

• Experience

• Field work

• Trade publications

• Government agencies

• Vendors

• Formal Education

• Geographical region in which they work

Government Regulators, Permitting and Compliance Officials

• Implement and enforce the regulations

• Resource stewardship

• Knowledge of shoreline protection options (structural and nonstructural)

• Physics and geomorphology, and ecology

• Legal mandates

• Public trust responsibility

• Constraints imposed by other regulatory programs

• Reports or the NRC and other expert bodies

• Professional networks

• Experience

• Consultants

• Formal education

• Legal counsel

• Jurisdiction in which they work