Sand nourishment strategies to mitigate coastal erosion and sea level rise at the coasts of Holland (The Netherlands) and Aveiro (Portugal) in the 21st century

Stronkhorst, J.; Huisman, B.J.A.; Giardino, Alessio; Santinelli, Giorgio; Santos, Filipe Duarte

doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2017.11.017

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“…Focusing on the sandy parts of the Dutch coastline, both flood defense and environmental protection are key components of Dutch CZM. Moreover, since the early 1990s, so-called "dynamic management" has been a key concept in Dutch CZM (Stronkhorst et al, 2018). The Dutch Technical Advisory Committee for Flood Defense defined "dynamic coastal zone management" as "managing the coast in such a way that natural processes, whether stimulated or not, can take place undisturbed as far as possible, as long as the safety of the inland area is ensured" (De Jong et al, 2014).…”

Section: Finland: a Focus On Flood Protection And Resiliencementioning

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The Role of Social-Ecological Resilience in Coastal Zone Management: A Comparative Law Approach to Three Coastal Nations

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Around the globe, coastal communities are increasingly coping with changing environmental conditions as a result of climate change and ocean acidification, including sea level rise, more severe storms, and decreasing natural resources and ecosystem services. A natural adaptation response is to engineer the coast in a perilous and often doomed attempt to preserve the status quo. In the long term, however, most coastal nations will need to transition to approaches based on ecological resilience-that is, to coastal zone management that allows coastal communities to absorb and adapt to change rather than to resist it-and the law will be critical in facilitating this transition. Researchers are increasingly illuminating law's ability to promote social-ecological resilience to a changing world, but this scholarship-mostly focused on U.S. law-has not yet embraced its potential role in helping to create new international norms for social-ecological resilience. Through its comparison of coastal zone management in Australia, Finland, and the Netherlands, this article demonstrates that a comparative law approach offers a fruitful expansion of law-and-resilience research, both by extending this research to other countries and, more importantly, by allowing scholars to identify critical variables, or variable constellations associated with countries' decisions to adopt laws designed to promote social-ecological resilience and to identify mechanisms that allow for a smoother transition to this approach. For example, our comparison demonstrates, among other things, that countries can adopt coastal zone management techniques that integrate social-ecological resilience without fully abandoning more traditional engineering approaches to adapt to environmental change and its impacts.

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“…Figure 3 shows a scheme of the guidelines for this type of coast. In all the cases, nourishment is the main strategy adopted (e.g., [43,44]), possibly together with structures (e.g., submerged barrier, low-crested structure, groins) or/and other measures (e.g., down-drift maintenance, up-drift bypass).…”

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“…It is, therefore, necessary that the plan includes the location of any sediment resource along the coast, offshore and/or inland. In most cases, the sediment balance is very helpful for finding the position and size of any coastal stocks [44]. Clearly, this sediment stock makes for excellent nourishment since it belongs to the same environment and is the most economical to derive.…”

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Vulnerability Analysis of the Venetian Littoral and Adopted Mitigation Strategy

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Martinelli

Favaretto

2018

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This paper discusses the key aspects of the recent Coastal Plan of the Veneto Region (IT). Its aim is to propose a single mitigation strategy for coastal erosion that is valid for the whole Veneto Region, and possibly elsewhere, as well as a method to assign a priority level to any action. The suggested mitigation action against erosion depends on urbanization level, beach width, as well as cross-shore and long-shore sediment transport. The criterion used to give a priority level to mitigation actions is based on a vulnerability index that takes into account erosive tendency, existing coastal flooding hazards, coast value, environmental relevance, tourist pressure, urbanization level, the presence of production activities, and cultural heritage. A sample case featuring the littoral of Rosolina is also provided and includes a site description, the sediment budget, critical issues and possible mitigation measures.

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“…The management of coastal erosion relies on the continuous development of new and flexible solutions and tools, which can account for changes in natural hazard conditions and anthropogenic interventions and which are based on long-term observations [3,4]. Coastal erosion is, however, a process characterized by high temporal and spatial variability.…”

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A Regional Application of Bayesian Modeling for Coastal Erosion and Sand Nourishment Management

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Pearson

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This paper presents an application of the Bayesian belief network for coastal erosion management at the regional scale. A “Bayesian ERosion Management Network” (BERM-N) is developed and trained based on yearly cross-shore profile data available along the Holland coast. Profiles collected for over 50 years and at 604 locations were combined with information on different sand nourishment types (i.e., beach, dune, and shoreface) and volumes implemented during the analyzed time period. The network was used to assess the effectiveness of nourishments in mitigating coastal erosion. The effectiveness of nourishments was verified using two coastal state indicators, namely the momentary coastline position and the dune foot position. The network shows how the current nourishment policy is effective in mitigating the past erosive trends. While the effect of beach nourishment was immediately visible after implementation, the effect of shoreface nourishment reached its maximum only 5–10 years after implementation of the nourishments. The network can also be used as a predictive tool to estimate the required nourishment volume in order to achieve a predefined coastal erosion management objective. The network is interactive and flexible and can be trained with any data type derived from measurements as well as numerical models.

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Sand nourishment strategies to mitigate coastal erosion and sea level rise at the coasts of Holland (The Netherlands) and Aveiro (Portugal) in the 21st century

Cited by 71 publications

References 33 publications

The Role of Social-Ecological Resilience in Coastal Zone Management: A Comparative Law Approach to Three Coastal Nations

The Role of Social-Ecological Resilience in Coastal Zone Management: A Comparative Law Approach to Three Coastal Nations

Vulnerability Analysis of the Venetian Littoral and Adopted Mitigation Strategy

A Regional Application of Bayesian Modeling for Coastal Erosion and Sand Nourishment Management

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