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Cesme, Turkey. Durban, South Africa. Nourishment modes. Miami Beach. Miami Beach. Problems with Beach Nourishment. Bad sand Sand source Costs - who pays? Promotes overdevelopment Meaningless design Environmental destruction. Relocation / Retreat. Advantages - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Cesme, Turkey
Durban, South Africa
Nourishmentmodes
Miami Beach
Miami Beach
Problems with Beach Nourishment
• Bad sand• Sand source• Costs - who pays?• Promotes
overdevelopment• Meaningless
design• Environmental
destruction
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
New Jersey
Cape Hatteras, NC
“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
March 2008 Retreat
John Donne (1572-1631), from Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII.
“If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were”
Beach Nourishment Schemes Spain and Italy Hanson et al. (2002) Coastal Engineering
•Defining Relative Sea level (past and future)•Understanding Ice-Earth-Ocean interaction•Coastal Response to RSL (and other) forcing
•Adaptation•Sustainable shorelines
Environment and Society
Geoscience – understanding the coastal system