Cesme, Turkey

Durban, South Africa

Nourishmentmodes

Miami Beach

Miami Beach

Problems with Beach Nourishment

• Bad sand• Sand source• Costs - who pays?• Promotes

overdevelopment• Meaningless

design• Environmental

destruction

Relocation / Retreat

Advantages• Responds to sea-level rise• Preserves the beach• Saves shoreline stabilization costs• Preserves Buildings

Disadvantages • Politically difficult• Potentially costly• Loss of land

New Jersey

Cape Hatteras, NC

“Paradise almost lost: Maldives seek to buy a new homeland”

“The last days of paradise

The president of the Maldives wants to buy a

new home for all 300,000 of his people...

“

November 2008

March 2008 Retreat

 John Donne (1572-1631), from Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII.

“If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were”

Beach Nourishment Schemes Spain and Italy Hanson et al. (2002) Coastal Engineering

•Defining Relative Sea level (past and future)•Understanding Ice-Earth-Ocean interaction•Coastal Response to RSL (and other) forcing

•Adaptation•Sustainable shorelines

Environment and Society

Geoscience – understanding the coastal system