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Existing adaptation strategies present humans as battling the coast, using militaristic terms such as “hardening the coastline” and “coastline defense,” according to geoscientist Jon Woodruff of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who is also the codirector of the Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center. “But the WAMPUM framework brings the perspective of mending the shoreline, rather than taking a hardline militant approach,” Woodruff said. “And I think people are starting to appreciate the value of these long-term sustainable practices rather than the short-term fixes that set communities up for failure once the hard defenses are compromised.”