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Coastal management - Soft engineering
- Beach nourishment
- Sand reduces wave energy
and maintains tourism
- Expensive
- Needs to be replenished constantly as
material becomes transported and eroded
- Sand reduces wave energy
and maintains tourism
- Managed retreat
- People and activities move inland
- Unpopular with local residents
- Depending on the rate of erosion the
movement may have to be more regular
- People and activities move inland
- Dune regeneration
- Relatively cheap
- People resent having to
stay out of replanted areas
- Relatively cheap
- Marsh creation
- Creates wildlife habitat
- Farmland destroyed and farmers
have to be compensated
- Creates wildlife habitat
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