Community of Practice

SAGE is a community of practice that recognizes the value of an integrated approach to coastal risk reduction. SAGE addresses the essential fields necessary to advance the practice of natural infrastructure, including science, engineering, and policy, as well as identification of new processes to accomplish and finance resilience initiatives. SAGE operates within an interagency and inter-organizational framework to achieve multiple system wide goals represented by the various missions and goals of the agencies and non-governmental entities. By working within a public-private forum, the SAGE community can appreciate cost efficiencies, improved communication and information transfer and implement multi-dimensional coastal resiliency projects.

• Federal and State Agencies
• Academics and Research Institutes
• Non-governmental Organizations
• Private Sector Engineering and Finance

SAGE Structure

SAGE is organized at the national and regional scales, wherein the national SAGE focuses on priorities related to natural infrastructure. The national scale is organized into workgroups, including

• Policy
• Technical - Science and Engineering
• Communications
• Finance
• Management Team

The regional scale consists of several Regional Demonstration Pilots, located at: San Francisco, CA; New York City, NY; Barnegat Bay, NJ; Puget Sound, WA; Baltimore, MD; and Jacksonville, FL. The pilots are designed to build regional communities of practice, and SAGE provides a means to support technical, policy, financial, and/or coordination concerns within a region. Regional communities work with the appropriate workgroups to advance the practice of natural infrastructure through the identification of projects, or vulnerable areas and solutions, and appropriate public-private funding mechanisms.