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Soft Engineering vs. a Dynamic Approach in Coastal Dune Management

Figure 2. View of a dune strip before (left) and after (right) introduction of dynamic coastal management. Upper photos show the situation near transect 20.2 looking to the west in 1995 (A) and 2002 (B). Photo A shows a ‘‘white dunes’’ habitat with Ammophila arenaria (marram grass) on the seaward side and sand fences. Photo B shows the same location in 2002. Here we see embryonic shifting dunes grown with A. arenaria and Elytrigia juncea
(sand couch) and ‘‘gray dunes’’ in the hinterland. Lower photographs show details of the front of the foredune near transect 10.0 to the east with (C)
and without (D) human intervention in the form of sand fence placement in 1988 and 2012, respectively.
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