Morphodynamic responses of nourished beaches in SW spain: a reply to anfuso et al.

摘要

Throughout the 1990s, the Coastal Directorate, presently subordinated to the Spanish Ministry of Environment, has realized an important campaign to renourish many of the beaches in Spain. This campaign has been designed not only to protext existing infrastructures on the coastline, but also to maintain the quality of the beaches per se. This is due to the widespread impact that tourism has no the Gross National Product (Houston 1995, 1996; King 1999). Special mention should be made of the fact that responses of renourished beaches were closely monitored until a political decision considered that further monitoring was not necessary. Transverse bathymetric profiles were established at 100 - m intervals. These were surveyed biannually and, as a minimum, for two years after the nourishment was completed. Fortunately, currently andguided by scientific objectives, the Coastal Directorate has decided that these coastal measureents should continue.