Damaging storm events frequently impact the Texas coast. In response, the US Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District (SWG) has undertaken the Sabine-to-Galveston (S2G) Coastal Storm Risk Management (CSRM) Project. This approximately $3.9B project includes numerous measures across several counties of the upper Texas coast, including levees, floodwalls, and pump stations. In June 2019, SWG leadership enlisted a team including the paper authors to integrate Engineering With Nature (EWN) strategies into this infrastructure project. EWN strategies intentionally align natural and engineering processes to efficiently and sustainably deliver economic, environmental, and social benefits through collaboration. The first step in this process was to develop potentially relevant EWN strategies. A collaborative workshop included visits to project sites and working sessions where the project team reviewed challenges associated with each site, generated an array of EWN strategies, and began to test design concepts based on those strategies through collaborative drawing sessions. Afterward, prioritized ideas were refined and evaluated in terms of property acquisition, estimated cost, logistics, stakeholder and sponsor interest, constructability, aesthetics, recreational opportunities, and ecological benefit. Design concepts considered feasible for integration into the broader S2G project included horizontal levees, inland floodwater storage areas that double as wildlife habitat, and strategic placement of sediment berms to reduce storm impacts and provide marsh substrate. All these concepts should achieve intended CSRM outcomes while enhancing environmental and social benefits. This assimilation of EWN strategies and landscape architecture techniques into a large CSRM study illustrates a method for expanding overall project value and producing infrastructure that benefits coastal communities. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2022;18:63–73. © 2021 SETAC

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将工程与 Nature® 策略和景观建筑技术整合到 Sabine-to-Galveston 沿海风暴风险管理项目中

破坏性风暴事件经常影响德克萨斯海岸。作为回应，美国陆军工程兵团加尔维斯顿区 (SWG) 承担了萨宾到加尔维斯顿 (S2G) 沿海风暴风险管理 (CSRM) 项目。这个大约 3.9B 美元的项目包括德克萨斯州上海岸几个县的众多措施，包括堤坝、防洪墙和泵站。2019 年 6 月，SWG 领导招募了一个团队，包括论文作者，将工程与自然 (EWN) 战略整合到这个基础设施项目中。EWN 战略有意将自然和工程流程结合起来，通过协作高效、可持续地提供经济、环境和社会效益。这个过程的第一步是制定可能相关的 EWN 策略。协作研讨会包括参观项目现场和工作会议，项目团队审查与每个站点相关的挑战，生成一系列 EWN 策略，并开始通过协作绘图会议基于这些策略测试设计概念。之后，在财产收购、估计成本、物流、利益相关者和赞助商的兴趣、可施工性、美学、娱乐机会和生态效益方面对优先考虑的想法进行了提炼和评估。被认为可以融入更广泛的 S2G 项目的设计概念包括水平堤坝、兼作野生动物栖息地的内陆蓄洪区，以及沉积物护堤的战略布局，以减少风暴影响并提供沼泽基质。所有这些概念都应在提高环境和社会效益的同时实现预期的 CSRM 成果。这种将 EWN 战略和景观建筑技术融入大型 CSRM 研究的做法说明了一种扩大整体项目价值和生产有利于沿海社区的基础设施的方法。2022 年整合环境评估管理；18：63–73。© 2021 SETAC