Coastal Protection Using Vegetation

Oral

1237 - Vegetated Foreshores As Coastal Protection Strategy: Coping With Uncertainties

Presenting Author(s)

• BB

  Bas Borsje

  Assistent-Professor
  University Of Twente

Additional Author #1(s)

• PW

  Pim Willemsen

Additional Author #2(s)

• SH

  Suzanne Hulscher

Worldwide, hard structures are used as coastal protection measure. These structures are static and do not respond to the changing climate like sea level rise and increasing storminess. Moreover, the energy released during extreme events is hardly dissipated, resulting in enormous losses and damage. Recently, the use of soft solutions in front of hard structures is more and more proposed – but not applied – as sustainable coastal protection measure. Promising Building with Nature solutions for flood protection, such as vegetated foreshores, inherently have a dynamic nature and are reviewed in this paper.