CRT’s Coastal Restoration Handbook
The Coastal Restoration Trust’s Restoration of Coastal Sand Dunes Using Native Plants, a Technical Handbook is proving to be a very popular resource.
The original handbook was funded by the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) Sustainable Management Fund. A subsequent three year MfE Community Environment Fund backdunes project enabled us to research and produce a second bundle of articles on backdune restoration. More recently MfE funded a project on monitoring vegetation on sand dunes, which resulted in another two articles (section 14).
You can download all (so-far published) pages and articles below or for a pdf containing it all (the file is too large to post here).
Restoration of Coastal Sand Dunes Using Native Plants, a Technical Handbook
- Front cover
- Title page
- A work in progress
- Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction - Divider
- 1.1 - Why do we need to restore
- 1.2 - Introducing Coastal Restoration Trust
- 1.3 - How to Use this Handbook
- 2 How do dunes work? - Divider
- 2.2 Storm Cut erosion 2011
- 2.3 Shoreline changes
- 2.4 Zonation and Succession
- 3 Sand dunes in New Zealand - Divider
- 4 Climate change - Divider
- 4.1 Climate Change Effects
- 5 Dune restoration and management - Divider
- 6 Coast care - Divider
- 7 Native vegetation on foredunes - Divider
- 7.1 Spinifex Ecology 2011
- 7.2 Spinifex Establishment
- 7.3 Pingao - Ecology
- 7.4 Pingao - Establishment
- 7.5 Sustainability for Weaving
- 8 Native vegetation on backdunes - Divider
- 8.1 Backdunes - an introduction
- 8.2 Ground cover species
- 8.3 Native trees and shrubs for backdunes
- 8.4 Wiwi
- 8.5 Sand daphne restoration
- 9 Fences and accessways - Divider
- 9.1 The Role of fences
- 9.2 Accessways
- 10 Human impacts on dunes - Divider
- 10.1 Human modification
- 10.2 Effects of vehicles
- 11 Fauna of beaches and dunes - Divider
- 12 Planting practices for coastal dunes - Divider
- 12.1 Getting started
- 13 Weeds and pest animals on coasts - Divider
- 13.3 Weed control
- 14 Monitoring coastal sand dunes - Divider
- 14.1 Monitoring dunes
- 14.2 Online guidelines for monitoring
- 14.3 Managing dune monitoring data
- Case studies - Divider
- Case Study No 01 Coromandel
- Case Study No 02 Timaru
- Case Study No 03 Restoring windblown dunes using native plants