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This Case Studies section aims to provide access to relevant Case Studies for use by practitioners in CZM. These case studies demonstrate the application of coastal zone management in practice and examine the intricacies of various coastal problems and solutions in different regions.
European case studies
The following case studies originate from the detailed searchable index of European case studies which can be found at Coastalguide Case Studies and Projects. Follow the links below for detailed case studies. The first few lines of each description are provided.
Assessment of community responses and reactions to serious coastal erosion and flooding in January, 2005, Aberdeen (CoPraNet).
- A hurricane-level storm struck the west coast of the Outer Hebrides in January 2005. Serious coastal damage and loss of life occurred as a consequence of flooding and erosion. Various community, local authority and government agency responses occurred quickly. In September 2006, a series of structural interviews were made to assess how these responses had developed and what actions had been put in place. Three groups were recognized: local inhabitants; professional agencies; and local council officials.
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Hyllingebjerg – Liseleje (Denmark) (EUROSION).
- Structural erosion on North Zealand coastline caused by net sediment transport gradient in combination with human interference, and erosion threatens existing summer cottages and beaches. Project is to protect cottages in environmentally friendsly and visually acceptable way. Breakwaters and beach nourishment used.
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Western Coast of Jutland (Denmark) (EUROSION).
- The western coast of Jutland belongs to the highly exposed North Sea coast and it is a shoreline of adjustment controlled by promontories, with embayments protected by offshore bars. Many small villages are located on the western coastal strip. Furthermore, the area has a considerable recreational and environmental function. The risk is considered to be high. Since 1982, engineering solutions have changed from a hard to a soft approach, like beach nourishment. Detached breakwaters are still used...
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Køge Bay (Denmark) (EUROSION).
- The beach park in the Køge Bay, south of Copenhagen, is an artificial landscape created in one of northern Europe’s largest land reclamation projects. The construction of the Beach Park was started in 1977 and it is actually an expansion of natural barrier islands formed during the 20th century in the shallow bay of Køge. The main purpose of the Beach Park is to provide fine beaches for the population of the area (recreational function)...
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Mar Menor (Spain) (EUROSION).
- There is no a real, active policy concerning coastal erosion. Regarding the few interventions performed (beach nourishment and construction of groins), the main policy option has been to “Hold the Line”, as promoted by public administration, commonly on a national level. It is important to point out that most of the nourishment performed on the continental shore of the Mar Menor is aimed at the creation of new beaches in a place where there was originally no morphology of sandy beaches. The main goal of these interventions was to try to attract more tourism.
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Danube Delta (Romania) (EUROSION).
- Erosion, as a negative environmental factor in the coastal areas, is one of the crucial issue that DDBR coast faced in the last decades. Coastal defence works covered only 2 % from the DDBR coast which is a natural low sandy beach. These works consist of " hard" structure built in the former political regime protecting the fragile narrow beach at Portita. Consequently, in 2002 DDBRA recognised that coastal erosion was a significant problem and they included in their management plan for 2002-2006 the elaboration of studies aiming at coastal erosion processes understanding and control.
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Improving Coast and Recreation Waters for All (ICREW).
- Improving Coastal and Recreational Waters (ICREW) was a project funded by the European Union’s INTERREG IIIB programme for the Atlantic Area. It involved nineteen partner organisations and five Atlantic Area Member States: France, Ireland, Portugal Spain and UK. The ICREW project aimed to assist Member States in improving their compliance with the Bathing Water Directive and to provide the tools and techniques to assist Member States to comply with the requirements of the revised Bathing Water Directive...
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Rehabilitation of the Leirosa Sand Dunes, Portugal (CoPraNet).
- The implantation of a submarine outfall pipe in 1995 for the cellulose pulp and paper companies Celbi and Soporcel, lead to some changes in the Leirosa sand dunes system. The use of hard machinery and the nearby presence of a breakwater increased the lasting problems of erosion in this coastal ecosystem. Sand accretion was the first step to the reconstruction of the Leirosa dunes (which started in 2000). After that, to stabilize the sand, revegetation was carried out with transplants of the grass Ammophila arenaria (L.) Link, the most appropriate plant species used in these situations...
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Other case studies
- The EBM Case Studies - Ecosystem-Based Management Tools Network Case studies section includes the following case studies, and more:
Linking Joint Objectives of Conserving Biodiversity and Sustaining Fishery Production: Case Study from the Pacific Northwest
- The Nature Conservancy and partners at NOAA Fisheries, University of British Columbia and the University of Queensland have prepared a case study from the Pacific Northwest Coast that examines approaches and methods for linking biodiversity conservation and fishery production objectives within one spatial planning framework. Two EBM tools were used: the optimized site selection tool, Marxan, and a fisheries-based ecosystem modeling tool, Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE). Two approaches for combining these objectives are illustrated. In the first approach, Marxan solutions are developed with and without data on marine fish. In the second approach, Marxan solutions are directly linked to EwE models through the Ecospace module to evaluate the effects of selecting areas for the conservation of representative biodiversity on fishery production.
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Meeting Joint Objectives of Conserving Coastal Wetlands and Mitigating Hazards: Case Study from the Florida Panhandle
- The Nature Conservancy and partners at NOAA Coastal Services Center and the University of Queensland have prepared a case study from the Florida Panhandle that examines approaches for jointly meeting objectives in biodiversity conservation and coastal hazard mitigation. Three EBM tools were used: the optimized site selection tool, Marxan; the coastal hazards planning tool, Community Vulnerability Assessment Tool (CVAT); and Ecoregional Assessment approach for biodiversity conservation.
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Alternatives for Coastal Development: Case Study from Coastal Georgia
- NOAA Coastal Services Center has created the Alternatives for Coastal Development: One Site, Three Scenarios website that illustrates three hypothetical development scenarios for a residential area in coastal Georgia. A suite of EBM tools was used to calculate and compare economic, environmental, and social indicators for each scenario and visualize the scenarios. EBM tools used include CommunityViz ArcView 3.x extension for indicator development, the SGWater module of the U.S. EPA's free Smart Growth Index software for estimating pollutant runoff, and Visual Nature Studio for creating spatially referenced photorealistic 3-D scenes from each scenario.
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Language-specific case studies
The following are from Kystdirektoratet, the Danish Coastal Authority (in Danish).
Links to case studies in Coastal Wiki
- Case studies - a collection of case studies featured in the coastal wiki and other links
Case studies on the web
Links to databases or further information on coastal case studies.
- Coastalguide Case Studies and Projects
- EBM Case Studies - Ecosystem-Based Management Tools Network Case studies section.
