Krysta Sutton presented some early work at the OFI network meeting in St. John’s this week.
The Ocean Frontier Institute has provided seed funding to Krysta Sutton to support the second year of her research on the otherwise NRCan-funded Making Room for Movement project led from SMU. She traveled to St. John’s this week for their network meeting to present early results from her qualitative analysis of this summer’s online focus groups with coastal residents of Nova Scotia. Some of those findings can be read from the headings on the poster: climate impacts residents see are (surprisingly) similar across coasts, most of the responses to those impacts that are seen are ‘hard line’ (e.g. seawalls), and they support the idea of ‘living shorelines’ approaches such as restoring tidal marshes, or planting up eroding coasts, but are a bit skeptical of their effectiveness.
