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Managing coastal evolution in a more sustainable manner. The Conscience approach |
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| Authors: | Agustín Sánchez-Arcilla José A Jiménez Marcel Marchand |
| Institution: | a International Centre for Coastal Resources Research, CIIRC, Barcelona, Spain b Laboratori d’Enginyeria Marítima, ETSECCPB, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, c/Jordi Girona 1-3, Campus Nord ed., D1, 08034 Barcelona, Spain c Deltares, P.O. Box 177, 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands |
| Abstract: | This paper summarises the main findings of the Conscience research project, whose primary objective was to define and validate, through pilot applications, a methodology to support the implementation, for European coasts, of concepts such as coastal resilience, favorable sediment status, strategic sediment reservoirs and coastal sediment cells. The Conscience conceptual framework to managing coastal erosion has proved to be an efficient tool, because it provides a consistent approach where objective (data) and subjective (desired status) information are analyzed and compared from the standpoint of a consensus target (objective). Moreover, this is done using the best available knowledge and observations, considering always their level of uncertainty, to conduct a sustainable management policy for coastal erosion. The methodology has been tested in field cases from The Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, United Kingdom and Ireland, to cover different time and space scales, together with a wide range of processes and different management objectives. |
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