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The National Academies hosted a workshop on the benefits, applications, and opportunities of natural infrastructure. This includes aspects of the natural landscape, from mangroves and marshes to municipal green infrastructure. The workshop explored natural infrastructure applications and efficacy in natural hazard resilience, climate change adaptation, and sustainable, multi-purpose infrastructure to advance and mainstream natural infrastructure and nature-based solutions in public and private engineering practice. Speakers included experts in engineering of natural and traditional infrastructure, sustainability, resilience, social sciences, and economics. The objective was to build recognition, understanding, support, and awareness of the applications of natural infrastructure.
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