Beach and dune restoration / Karl F. Nordstrom.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-183) and index.

1. The need for restoration -- The problem -- Human modifications -- Values, goods, and services of beaches and dunes -- The need for restoring beaches and dunes -- Definitions and approaches to restoration -- The elusiveness of a time-dependent target state -- Types of restoration projects -- Scope of book -- 2. Beach nourishment and impacts -- The potential for restoration -- General design considerations -- Sediment characteristics -- Potential negative impacts of nourishment operations -- Alternative practices to minimize environmental losses and enhance values -- Alternative designs for beach fills -- Restoring sediment characteristics -- Monitoring and adaptive management -- Concluding statement -- 3. Dune building practices and impacts -- Characteristics of human-altered dunes -- Dunes built by aeolian transport from nourished beaches -- Building dunes by deposit of fill from external sources -- Building dunes by beach scraping -- Building dunes using sand fences -- Building dunes using vegetation -- Building dunes using multiple strategies -- Concluding statement -- 4. Restoring processes, structure, and functions -- Increasing complexity and dynamism -- The issue of dynamism -- Altering or removing shore protection structures -- Restricting beach raking -- Restricting driving on beaches and dunes -- Removing or altering sand-trapping fences -- Protecting endangered species -- Altering growing conditions -- Replacing vegetation -- Restoring slacks -- Allowing time for naturalization -- Determining appropriate levels of dynamism -- Offsite activities -- Concluding statement -- 5. Options in spatially restricted environments -- Alternative restoration outcomes -- Natural gradient -- Truncated gradient -- Compressed gradient -- Expanded gradient -- Fragmented and decoupled gradients -- Implications -- 6. A locally based program for beach and dune restoration -- The need for local action -- Gaining acceptance for natural landforms and habitats -- Identifying reference conditions -- Establishing demonstration sites -- Developing guidelines and protocols -- Developing and implementing public education programs -- Maintaining and evaluating restored environments -- 7. Stakeholder interests, conflicts, and co-operation -- Obtaining public support -- The need for compromise solutions -- Contrasts in stakeholder perceptions and values -- Stakeholder actions -- The resulting landscape -- 8. Research needs -- Introduction -- Nourishing beaches -- Building dunes -- Accommodating or controlling dynamism -- Options in spatially restricted environments -- Addressing stakeholder concerns and needs -- Maintaining and evaluating restored environments -- Concluding statement.

"This book analyzes the tradeoffs involved in restoring beaches and dunes on intensively developed coasts, the most effective approaches to use, and the ways to educate and involve stakeholders. It identifies restoration strategies that enhance natural processes and make coastal landforms more dynamic while maintaining their value for shore protection. In addition to ecological values, the concept of restoration is expanded to include physical, economic, social and ethical principles. Compromise management solutions are suggested to accommodate the needs of different user groups, including municipal managers and individual property owners. The means of overcoming inertia or antagonism to environmentally friendly actions are also discussed. The book is written for coastal scientists, engineers, planners and managers, and serves as a useful supplementary reference text for courses in coastal management, ecology and environmental ethics."--Publisher's website.

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