Coastal Management of Beaches
- Beach management programs are put in place to address threats such as: tourism harassment, beach insecurity, and beach degradation
- As a plan—beach patrols, daily beach clean-up, life guard duties, restoration of beaches
- Plan implemented by the tourism stakeholders and local community
- Beach management plans work to promote beach preservation and sustainable development of the coastal zone
- It is necessary to understand the coastal processes and negative impacts that they can have on the beaches in order to instill a management plan for the beaches
- Beach replenishment and nourishment
- involves importing sand that is similar to the sand already present
- sand is collected from a different location by a dredge and then piped into the beach where it is needed
- States form organizations to provide for beach management such as the State Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) who prepared a Coastal Erosion Management Plan for Hawaii
- Beach erosion control program
- environmental research and monitoring current conditions, inlet management planning, inlet sand transfer, dune restoration and protection activities
- work with local, state and federal governments
- Erosion is partly due to natural forces and coastal developments; it takes away the natural resources which then need to be restored
- Managing risk assessment is important for coastal zone management
- Proposing a security and cleaning deposit for residents
- Beach safety service--lifeguards
- Signage-clear communication with visitors