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Living Shorelines Australia database: a national inventory of nature-based coastal protection projects (NESP MaC 1.10)

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 24/06/2025

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Climate change and population growth are accelerating the need for diverse solutions to coastal protection. Traditionally, shorelines are armoured with conventional "hard" or "grey" engineering structures such as seawalls which are non-adaptive and come with significant economic, environmental and social costs. While hard structures have a place in coastal protection, alternative 'living shorelines' methods harness natural ecosystems to reduce coastal erosion and flooding and provide co-benefits such as carbon sequestration. They may consist of dunes, wetlands and biogenic reefs: either alone (‘soft approach’) or in combination with hard structures (‘hybrid approach’). The Living Shorelines Australia project (https://livingshorelines.com.au) compiled a database of nature-based ("soft" or "hybrid") coastal protection projects from across Australia. This database acts as a tool to help coastal managers make informed decisions by providing as many examples as possible of where these solutions have been used, how they were used, and how effective they are in different contexts. The information in this database was collected through direct engagement with coastal managers and stakeholders, a literature search, and informal internet searching. Under the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub Project 1.10, this database was established and populated with 138 projects identified through the process described above. Since then (2022), the database has continued to be updated by The University of Melbourne and now contains 200 nature-based coastal protection projects.

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Title Living Shorelines Australia database: a national inventory of nature-based coastal protection projects (NESP MaC 1.10)
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/503a3f4a-fb31-48a6-8426-3167c24dbbab
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
rebecca.morris@unimelb.edu.au
Reference Period 01/02/2022
Geospatial Coverage Australia
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Living Shorelines Australia database: a national inventory of nature-based coastal protection projects (NESP MaC 1.10)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/living-shorelines-australia-database-a-national-inventory-of-nature-based-coastal-protection-10