Traditional forms of coastal protection such as sand barriers, dikes and dams are being questioned due to their high maintenance costs, limited flexib...
ILVO provides advice and support for area-based approaches related to coastal protection.
...: mariculture as a function of food and feed, mariculture as a function of coastal protection, mariculture as a function of pharmaceutical and biot...
...at sand is used as a building material but also for beach embankments as coastal protection during storms. ILVO will collect samples at sea every s...
...s of experimentation and scientific observation at sea, a new nature-based coastal protection technique is on the table. One of the innovative elem...
...en the great need for sand for the large-scale application of nature-based coastal protection and, on the other hand, the finite nature of sand res...
...use this principle of ‘working with nature’ in research on natural coastal protection, the restoration of shellfish beds, innovative aquaculture me...
...more ecologically sound solution incorporates nature-inspired designs into coastal protection systems.