Print Email Facebook Twitter Coastal maintenance in the Netherlands Title Coastal maintenance in the Netherlands Author Verhagen, H.J. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Hydraulic Engineering Date 1991-01-01 Abstract The government of The Netherlands has decided in the summer of 1990 to maintai.n the coastline at the position of 1990. This will be done mainly by artificial beach nourishment. The costs will be paid by the national government. The purpose of this coastal maintenance is to maintain a sufficient level of safety and to maintain the various functions of beach and dune areas. As a criterion for coastal erosion the movement of the "coastline" is used. In this paper the definition of coastline is worked out more in detail. Subject coastal zone managementartificial nourishmentcoastal erosion To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:2fe9b5c9-5ace-4c04-a12f-6ac9c116eb42 Publisher ASCE Source 7th Coastal Zone Management Conference, Long Beach, CA, USA, 1991 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 1991 Verhagen, H.J. Files PDF CZ91-Verhagen.pdf 321.76 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:2fe9b5c9-5ace-4c04-a12f-6ac9c116eb42/datastream/OBJ/view