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HAP Target 4 - Habitat restoration
Habitat Action Plan Target 4 is concerned with the restoration
of coastal vegetated shingle. Some or all of the approaches to management
and restoration given in the route
to restoration files will be applicable at many individual
sites, The guidance given within each section should be followed.
However, there are a number of more general issues surrounding the
philosophy of undertaking such work which are considered here. These
include:
- initiating
erosion (moving from State
2 to State 1 in the habitat restoration section). This
discussion includes consideration of the reliance on what are
effectively static boundaries on maps, which are used to define
the limits of designated sites;
- the potentially healing
role that the 'natural dynamic' can play in restoring
coastal vegetated shingle;
- dealing with the
unpredicable;
- recognising that allowing erosion may be an acceptable
alternative to creating coastal defences in some cases.
For each of these issues general guidance on action or recommendations
for further studies are made.
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