Dune Roadmap of the Atlantic Biogeographical Region
Roadmap for knowledge exchange and networking for the period 2023-2027: Supporting the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and the conservation of coastal dune habitats in the Atlantic Biogeographical Region.
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Foredune Dynamisation Manual
Authors: Bas Arens et al. 2024
Editorial staff: Albert Oost, Bas Arens & Sonja van der Graaf
Editorial staff English edition: Houston & Kenneth Pye
The manual is a must for all dune freaks - please take time to study it!
The pdf download you will find HERE.
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Handbook Coastal Dune Management, 2nd edition
Jones, L., Rooney, P., Rhymes. J. and Dynamic Dunescapes partners, GB
A comprehensive handbook discussing the wide range of dune management options available to address the issues faced by coastal sand dune systems, including overstabilisation and invasive species. Management interventions detailed include notches, grazing, turf-stripping and scrub clearance. This handbook is designed to be a useful, in-depth resource for sand dune site managers, and aims to keep our management techniques up to date for the needs of dune conservation in a variety of situations.
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Non-uniform dune development in the presence of standalone beach buildings
Sander Vos, Christa van IJzendoorn, Roderik Lindenbergh, Alain de Wulf
Shoreward sand transport and dune development are increasingly influenced by the urbanization of beach-dune systems in the Netherlands. Three topographic datasets, on various spatio-temporal scales, are used to study the effect of standalone buildings on long term local dune development. On the smallest scale, terrestrial laser scans are used to study the geomorphological effects of two sea containers on the beach. On the intermediate scale, the geomorphological effects of a beach pavilion on the local dune development are studied with a 2-year topographic dataset of (bi) monthly permanent laser scans. Finally, 15 yearly airborne lidar scans of the beach-dune system in Noordwijk are used to evaluate the effect of multiple beach pavilions on dune growth variations. The small-scale experiment shows that horseshoe-shaped deposition patterns developed on the leeside of the containers. These depositions follow daily wind changes and leave deposits corresponding to the residual wind direction over the whole measuring period. Similar patterns are found around the larger beach pavilion, but anthropogenic activities like bulldozing and beach shaping make the determination of the effect on dune development harder to discern. Evaluation of the longer-term dataset reveals large variations in dune height and volume around beach pavilions. Dune height/volume increases vary between 1 and 8 m in height and 0–200 m3 in volume. A variability analysis shows that the length scale of alongshore variability in dune height/volume of urbanized dunes can be 10 times smaller than for natural dunes. For about half the beach pavilions, variations in dune height and volume are significantly correlated to the location of beach pavilions but correlation to particular beach pavilion properties is yet inconclusive
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2024.109402