The coast is the zone where land meets sea. People wish to live, work and enjoy leisure time at the coast, and its landscapes and biodiversity need protection. Coastal management is not new. Plans have long been in place to balance the conflicting demands placed on our coastline, and to defend it against marine erosion and coastal f looding.
There is no shortage of excellent material available, in textbooks and online, showing how the coast is being managed. Approaches include hard and soft engineering strategies (see the article on bioprotection in this issue, pages 37–41) which each have positive and negative impacts.
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