A new alternative to saving our beaches from sea-level rise: The sand engine

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Stive, Marcel J. F.
Schipper, Matthieu A. de
Luijendijk, Arjen P.
Aarninkhof, Stefan G. J.
Gelder-Maas, Carola van
van Thiel de Vries, Jaap S. M.
de Vries, Sierd
Henriquez, Martijn
Marx, Sarah
Ranasinghe, Roshanka

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Coastal Education & Research Foundation, Inc.

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A boldly innovative soft engineering intervention, comprising an unprecedented 21.5 Mm3 sand nourishment known as the Sand Engine, has recently been implemented in the Netherlands. The Sand Engine nourishment is a pilot project to test the efficacy of loc

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Journal of Coastal Research

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2037-12-31