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Figure 8.2 – Using the principles of Green Shores for Homes, you can transform your shoreline from armoured and
bare to lush and natural! - Illustration by: Holly Sullivan
Green Shores offers a Framework of Nature-based Solutions for Shorelines
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Green Shores is an initiative of the Stewardship Shoreline management increasingly points to the
Centre for British Columbia with the broad objective use of nature-based solutions consistent with the
of increasing capacity to address impacts of Green Shores guiding principles:
shoreline development, including climate change, 1. Preserve the integrity and connectivity of
on shoreline ecology and human well-being . shoreline processes
It is a made-in-Canada approach that uses a 2. Maintain and enhance shoreline habitat diversity
multi-disciplinary, integrated framework to and function
shoreline management by encouraging adoption
of nature-based solutions in the design and 3. Minimize and reduce pollutants to the shoreline
construction of projects on marine and lake shores . environment
4. Reduce and reverse cumulative impacts to
shoreline systems
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