Beach management manual (second edition)

In the UK, over £370M is spent on coastal defences every year, and this figure will need to double by the 2080s because of climate change and changing demographics. Beaches play an important role either as the sole barriers to coastal flooding and erosion, or as part of manmade defences. Their maintenance and/or improvement will cover a substantial proportion of this expenditure. Beach management in the UK has evolved in design and execution over the last ten years, aided by guidance from the CIRIA Beach management manual, first published in 1996. This update will include the latest information on beach monitoring and maintenance, evaluation of the state and performance of a beach, design, procurement, execution and the after-care of beach improvement schemes. It will also outline the results of recent research (in the UK and beyond) and summarise the experiences of a large number of beach management/recharge schemes that have been carried out since 1996.