“…Local erosion trends and risks to infrastructure, projections of local sea-level rise, availability of sand, and societal values vary across the globe (Box 1), and future nourishment strategies must reflect these differences. For some locations small scale nourishments with lifespans of a month might be preferred (for example, as at Dongsha beach, China 66 ), whereas large scale nourishments are designed to last decades at other locations (as with the Sand Engine, Netherlands 52 ).…”