Evaluation of Effect of Beach Nourishment as a Measure against Beach Erosion on South Kujukuri Beach

Environmental Impact of Beach Nourishment: A Case Study of the Rio San Pedro Beach (SW Spain)

The beaches on the left bank of Rio San Pedro (SW Spain) are in a regressive state because of the human activities of recent decades. With the objective of minimizing the effects of the erosion, the Spanish Coastal Department (Ministry of the Environment) decided that the most suitable solution was to provide sand nourishment. Previously, an environmental impact study (EIS) was carried out on t...

Economic Valuation of Beach Erosion Control Programs

In this study, we employ a choice-based conjoint survey design to elicit individual choices of beach erosion control programs that can potentially cause multiple effects on beach environment. Two empirical choice models which incorporate individual heterogeneity, are used to analyze and compare the elicited individual choices of erosion control programs. Our results show that to a typical indiv...

Macroinfauna of Wainui beach south of the Hamanatua stream: an assessment of changes associated with beach erosion

Macrofaunal sediment selectivity considerations for beach nourishment programmes.

Nowadays, beach nourishment is widely considered as a better alternative compared to the construction of hard structures to protect a sandy coast against detrimental erosive effects, both from an ecological and an engineering perspective. The rare studies conducted on the ecological impact of beach nourishment are short-term, post hoc monitoring investigations of the benthic macrofauna. Little ...

Macroinfauna of Wainui Beach, Gisborne - impact of beach protection structures