Urban forests play an essential role in moderating storm water and flood damage, water quality, erosion, and storm water treatment costs (Nowak, 2006).
The Geological Services Division (GSD) of the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) operates a longterm program to map the vulnerability of the province’s coast to flooding and erosion....
The goal of this project was to assist the Town of Grand Falls to adapt to existing and future impacts caused by erosion of the banks along the three major watercourses.
Coastal erosion is a natural process that consists of the breakdown (or “weathering”) of rock and sediments at the shore-line, both above and below the water surface. In Atlantic Canada, coastal...