Life on the edge: Adapting coastal management in a changing climate

摘要: Back-to-back severe storms battered the coast over months and months. The dunes eroded and the beaches were stripped bare of sand. There was barely enough space to lay a towel on the sand - if you could even make your way down the cliff at the end of the access path. Seawalls and walkways along the coast were damaged by the blows of powerful waves, bits of steel reinforcement and pipes stuck out here and there. Many of the beachfront houses were crumbling into the ocean too, their occupants forced out; rubble and pollution littered the beach from end to end. We stopped going to the beach.