Beach Nourishment and Coastal Habitats: Research Needs to Improve Compatibility

摘要: Beach nourishment creates many opportunities for resource development and use, but it also new issues regarding cumulative, long-term losses in borrow areas appropriate human actions fill areas. Nourished beaches should be considered as more than consumptive resources built shore protection recreation. Assessments of projects the United States are used to identify research needed address impacts on species habitats restoration natural subenvironments nourished Achieving these goals involves changes stakeholder attitudes about meaning beach initiatives demonstrate scientific, technologic, economic feasibility methods that compatible with maintaining or restoring landforms habitats. Suggestions made expanding spatial temporal scales investigation, evaluating alternative sediment types, identifying uses fill, technologies practices, implementing adaptive management strategies, assessing capabilities, overcoming cost constraints, conducting interdisciplinary studies.