FrontMatter -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Contents -- Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Institutional Landscape for Coastal Risk Management -- 3 Performance of Coastal Risk Reduction Strategies -- 4 Principles for Guiding the Nation's Future Investments in Coastal Risk Reduction -- 5 A Vision for Coastal Risk Reduction -- References -- Appendix A: Major U.S. Coastal Storms Since 1900 -- Appendix B: USACE Coastal Storm Damage Reduction Projects -- Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members.