The Effectiveness, Costs and Coastal Protection Benefits of Natural and Nature-Based Defences.

ABSTRACT: There is great interest in the restoration and conservation of coastal habitats for protection from flooding and erosion. This is evidenced by the growing number of analyses and reviews of the effectiveness of habitats as natural defences and increasing funding world-wide for nature-based defences-i.e. restoration projects aimed at coastal protection; yet, there is no synthetic information on what kinds of projects are effective and cost effective for this purpose. This paper addresses two issues critical for designing restoration projects for coastal protection: (i) a synthesis of the costs and benefits of projects designed for coastal protection (nature-based defences) and (ii) analyses of the effectiveness of coastal habitats (natural defences) in reducing wave heights and the biophysic

SUBMITTER: Narayan S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4852949 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature