Dataset: U.S. coastal county socioeconomic and shoreline condition data synthesis and derived calculations from data sources between 2005 to 2010 (EstuarineMetaDyn project)

This dataset contains shoreline condition and socioeconomic data for U.S. coastal counties.  Included in the data are the length of hardened shoreline, number of storms, relative sea level rise, shoreline slope, tidal range, erosion or accretion rate, geomorphology, housing density, the number of years shoreline hardening has been banned, and U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP).  These data and derived calculations were obtained from various databases specified in the Methods & Sampling section. 

These data were used for regression tree analyses in the following publication:

Gittman, RK, FJ Fodrie, AM Popowich, DA Keller, JF Bruno, CA Currin, CH Peterson, and MF Piehler (2015) Engineering away our natural defenses: an analysis of shoreline hardening in the United States. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 13: 301–307. doi:10.1890/150065