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Challenges and Strategies in Beach Nourishment: A Global Perspective

This article explores the multifaceted issues surrounding beach nourishment, focusing on locations like Miami Beach, Cesme, and Durban. It examines problems such as poor sand quality, sourcing issues, costs, and overdevelopment. The advantages and disadvantages of beach nourishment are discussed, including its role in responding to sea-level rise, shoreline preservation, and the economic impacts. Case studies from New Jersey and Maldives highlight the global implications of coastal management. The discussion emphasizes sustainable practices and the necessity for adaptation in a changing environment.

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Challenges and Strategies in Beach Nourishment: A Global Perspective

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  1. Cesme, Turkey Durban, South Africa Nourishment modes

  2. Miami Beach

  3. Miami Beach

  4. Problems with Beach Nourishment • Bad sand • Sand source • Costs - who pays? • Promotes overdevelopment • Meaningless design • Environmental destruction

  5. Relocation / Retreat • Advantages • Responds to sea-level rise • Preserves the beach • Saves shoreline stabilization costs • Preserves Buildings • Disadvantages • Politically difficult • Potentially costly • Loss of land

  6. New Jersey

  7. Cape Hatteras, NC

  8. “Paradise almost lost: Maldives seek to buy a new homeland” “The last days of paradise The president of the Maldives wants to buy a new home for all 300,000 of his people... “ November 2008

  9. Retreat March 2008

  10. “If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were” John Donne (1572-1631), from Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII.

  11. Beach Nourishment Schemes Spain and Italy Hanson et al. (2002) Coastal Engineering

  12. Geoscience – understanding the coastal system • Defining Relative Sea level (past and future) • Understanding Ice-Earth-Ocean interaction • Coastal Response to RSL (and other) forcing Environment and Society • Adaptation • Sustainable shorelines

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