A competition to identify Australia’s ‘saddest’ beach has been announced by Naomi Edwards, coordinator of the Younger Australian Coastal Society.
The competition, launched on 21 March – World Happiness Day – is aimed at finding Australia’s most distressed beach and then working to rehabilitate it.
Lack of adequate policy guidelines and a funding source to deal with coastal erosion is emerging as the most difficult issue currently facing coastal councils.
Most of the councils that nominated issues to be considered in the Coastal Issues Exchange at the 2015 Australian Coastal Councils Conference put coastal erosion at or near the top of their list.
In the view of one council, the lack of clarity on state and national policy in relation to coastal erosion and sea level rise is arguably the ‘major coastal issue of the century’.
A new book written by an American geologist and an Irish professor of coastal studies argues that the world’s beaches are at risk of extinction.
An Australian company has developed a concrete retaining block system which is designed to combat beach erosion and riverbank collapse.