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 the published pages and articles below.
Restoration of Coastal Sand Dunes Using Native Plants, a Technical Handbook
- Front cover (PDF, 6.00 MB)
- Title page (PDF, 215.46 kB)
- A work in progress (PDF, 1.97 MB)
- Table of Contents (PDF, 102.19 kB)
- 1 Introduction - Divider (PDF, 5.02 MB)
- 1.1 - Why do we need to restore (PDF, 2.18 MB)
- 1.2 - Introducing Coastal Restoration Trust (PDF, 3.84 MB)
- 1.3 - How to Use this Handbook (PDF, 1.47 MB)
- 2 How do dunes work? - Divider (PDF, 5.22 MB)
- 2.2 Storm Cut erosion 2011 (PDF, 2.65 MB)
- 2.3 Shoreline changes (PDF, 3.28 MB)
- 2.4 Zonation and Succession (PDF, 1.18 MB)
- 3 Sand dunes in New Zealand - Divider (PDF, 5.02 MB)
- 4 Climate change - Divider (PDF, 5.57 MB)
- 4.1 Climate Change Effects (PDF, 3.22 MB)
- 5 Dune restoration and management - Divider (PDF, 5.62 MB)
- 6 Coast care - Divider (PDF, 5.47 MB)
- 7 Native vegetation on foredunes - Divider (PDF, 5.94 MB)
- 7.1 Spinifex Ecology 2011 (PDF, 5.81 MB)
- 7.2 Spinifex Establishment (PDF, 6.35 MB)
- 7.3 Pingao - Ecology (PDF, 5.06 MB)
- 7.4 Pingao - Establishment (PDF, 6.30 MB)
- 7.5 Sustainability for Weaving (PDF, 4.89 MB)
- 8 Native vegetation on backdunes - Divider (PDF, 5.63 MB)
- 8.1 Backdunes - an introduction (PDF, 638.34 kB)
- 8.2 Ground cover species (PDF, 945.08 kB)
- 8.3 Native trees and shrubs for backdunes (PDF, 1.10 MB)
- 8.4 Wiwi (PDF, 1.17 MB)
- 8.5 Sand daphne restoration (PDF, 907.77 kB)
- 9 Fences and accessways - Divider (PDF, 4.81 MB)
- 9.1 The Role of fences (PDF, 5.57 MB)
- 9.2 Accessways (PDF, 5.79 MB)
- 10 Human impacts on dunes - Divider (PDF, 5.80 MB)
- 10.1 Human modification (PDF, 1.20 MB)
- 10.2 Effects of vehicles (PDF, 1.03 MB)
- 11 Fauna of beaches and dunes - Divider (PDF, 5.55 MB)
- 12 Planting practices for coastal dunes - Divider (PDF, 4.86 MB)
- 12.1 Getting started (PDF, 361.34 kB)
- 13 Weeds and pest animals on coasts - Divider (PDF, 5.50 MB)
- 13.3 Weed control (PDF, 8.58 MB)
- 14 Monitoring coastal sand dunes - Divider (PDF, 5.05 MB)
- 14.1 Monitoring dunes (PDF, 961.45 kB)
- 14.2 Online guidelines for monitoring (PDF, 348.27 kB)
- 14.3 Managing dune monitoring data (PDF, 469.18 kB)
- Case studies - Divider (PDF, 161.46 kB)
- Case Study No 01 Coromandel (PDF, 1.42 MB)
- Case Study No 02 Timaru (PDF, 1.36 MB)
- Case Study No 03 Restoring windblown dunes using native plants (PDF, 1.40 MB)