Goals, beneficiaries, and indicators of waterfront revitalization in Great Lakes Areas of Concern and coastal communities.

ABSTRACT: Cleanup of Great Lakes Areas of Concern (AOCs) restores environmental benefits to waterfront communities and is an essential condition for revitalization. We define waterfront revitalization as policies or actions in terrestrial waterfront or adjacent aquatic areas that promote improvements in human socioeconomic well-being while protecting or improving the natural capital (the stocks of natural assets, biodiversity) that underlies all environmental, social, and economic benefits. Except for economic measures such as development investments, visitation rates, or commercial activity, evidence of waterfront revitalization in the Great Lakes is mostly anecdotal. We offer a perspective on waterfront revitalization that links indicators and metrics of sustainable revitalization to community goa

SUBMITTER: Angradi TR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7681537 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature