Challenges in developing sustainable sandy strategies
Auteur(s) |
J.S.M. van Thiel de Vries
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E. van Eekelen
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A.P. Luijendijk
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S. Ouwerkerk
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H.J. Steetzel
Publicatie type | Artikel
Sandy nourishments are worldwide applied along sandy shores as maintenance strategy and to enhance the values of coastal areas. In this context, there is a challenge in developing competitive sandy strategies that optimally suit local demands and needs. Within the Building with Nature innovation program three pilots projects based on sandy strategies are explored and discussed in this paper. The pilot projects are based on existing concepts reinvented for new environments in which the challenge is to better suit a local context with respect to conventional approaches. This obviously is a design challenge in which the capacity to 1) develop designs with controlled morphodynamics and 2) engineer with vegetation are both critical.