sandbanks

• need for management

  • housing that costs over £10 million
  • high value properties which contribute to the local economy
  • beach is a tourist attraction
  • provides protection to Poole harbour
  • climate change leads to rise in sea level by 0.6m in the next 100yrs
• management strategies

  • rock groynes (without this erosion rates would be 1.6m)
  • beach recharge (can be expensive)
  • new technique of sediment dredged from the harbour which is more effective as it works with nature and is cheaper