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

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

<p>These data were used for regression tree analyses in the following publication:</p>

<p>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.&nbsp;<a href=\"http://doi.org/10.1890/150065\" target=\"_blank\">doi:10.1890/150065</a></p>

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