Management

As coastal consultants, we specialise in the management of coastal areas. Coastal areas are dynamic areas of natural change and of increasing human use. Because of this, we need to manage both the natural change and the human use. Typically, there are five generic strategies for coastal management.

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• Do nothing and let nature take its course, which could lead to no human use

• Retreat or realignment, which adopts solutions that recognise natural change

• Hold the line where defence, such as seawalls are created

• Move seaward, creating dunes as defence

• Or accommodation, such as dune planting to cope with the natural change

Not all sites require the same strategy; it depends on a range of factors. As Coastal Consultants, we provide the design services to manage the site specifically.

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Davis Coastal Consultants has experience and initiative in all five management strategies, typically:

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Seawalls (Rock Rip-Rap, Rock Masonry, Vertical Wall, Stabilised Sediment, Gabion Baskets, Timber Retaining walls), Breakwaters; Groynes; Sand Nourishment; Managed Retreat; Dune Stabilisation; Dredging; Stormwater Management.

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We also provide monitoring services to monitor what the site is doing over a time-frame.