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Coastal Landform System Sustainability Project: An Analysis Of Activities Permitted On Coastal Landforms On Cape Cod, Massachusetts In 1999
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2000
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Description:There is a great need to understand how individual actions on a small scale (lot-by-lot) basis affect the sustainability of coastal landform systems, such as coastal dunes, beaches, coastal banks, barrier beaches, saltmarshes, and coastal floodplains. However, there are few investigations on this spatial scale. This study illustrates the vast extent of human alterations to coastal landforms on Cape Cod. As a result of analyzing 318 Orders of Conditions issued for activities permitted on and adjacent to coastal landforms in all 15 Cape Cod towns in 1999, it documents and quantifies the gains and losses to coastal landform system sustainability. It also documents the trade-offs and balances in the application of regulations. Many decisions are made using best judgment without the predictive capability to know what impacts will actually result. Results of this study should assist managers and regulators, as well as the public, in gaining insight as to good coastal resource management.
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Sea Grant Document Number:WHOI-T-00-001
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