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by Krystyna Powell, Safra Altman and James Marshall Shepherd 5 January 202327 March 2023

Natural and engineered, nature-based structures offer promise for storm-related disaster risk reduction and flood mitigation, as long as researchers can adequately monitor and study them.

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