and restoration activities, where ‘‘successful’’ and ‘‘failed’’ studies or approaches
(however they are determined) are compared and contrasted. Finally, this book
will be a resource for coastal planners, as well as for local and state officials,
residents of coastal communities, environmental advocates, developers, and others
concerned with coastal issues.
A major product of this book is a compendium of empirical experiences
showing that coastal dune restoration has many meanings, and thus, leads to many
different actions. Coastal dune restoration may have the goal of increasing vegetation cover and reducing substrate mobility, but it may also aim to remobilize
sandy terrains in order to counteract the negative impact of overstabilization:
reduced diversity. Here, the relevance of the different goals in restoration is shown
very clearly.
The meetings held to put together this book and organize the chapters received
partial funding from grant no. 23669 (SEMARNAT-CONACYT), coordinated by
M. Luisa Martinez. We are very grateful to Dieter Czseschlik, from SpringerVerlag, who originally invited Juan B. Gallego-Fernández to write a proposal for a
book on coastal dune restoration. It was he who ignited this idea. Lawrence R.
Walker read this book several times and provided very useful comments and
recommendations. We are also grateful to Andrea Schlitzberger for her constant
interest and support throughout the different stages of this book.
Finally, we would like to thank our families and children for bearing with us
while we were writing, assembling, and reviewing all the chapters. Thank you to
Graziela Miot Da Silva, Nicholas Hesp (again!), Jonathan, Phoebe and Sebastian
Hesp, Chary García , María Gallego García, Octavio Pérez-Maqueo, and Valeria
Pérez Martínez.
This book is dedicated to the memory of M. Anwar Maun (1935–2007),
cherished friend and colleague who was a leader in coastal dune ecological studies.
He is dearly missed by us and by all the coastal dune scientific community.
M. Luisa Martínez
Juan B. Gallego-Fernández
Patrick A. Hesp
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(however they are determined) are compared and contrasted. Finally, this book
will be a resource for coastal planners, as well as for local and state officials,
residents of coastal communities, environmental advocates, developers, and others
concerned with coastal issues.
A major product of this book is a compendium of empirical experiences
showing that coastal dune restoration has many meanings, and thus, leads to many
different actions. Coastal dune restoration may have the goal of increasing vegetation cover and reducing substrate mobility, but it may also aim to remobilize
sandy terrains in order to counteract the negative impact of overstabilization:
reduced diversity. Here, the relevance of the different goals in restoration is shown
very clearly.
The meetings held to put together this book and organize the chapters received
partial funding from grant no. 23669 (SEMARNAT-CONACYT), coordinated by
M. Luisa Martinez. We are very grateful to Dieter Czseschlik, from SpringerVerlag, who originally invited Juan B. Gallego-Fernández to write a proposal for a
book on coastal dune restoration. It was he who ignited this idea. Lawrence R.
Walker read this book several times and provided very useful comments and
recommendations. We are also grateful to Andrea Schlitzberger for her constant
interest and support throughout the different stages of this book.
Finally, we would like to thank our families and children for bearing with us
while we were writing, assembling, and reviewing all the chapters. Thank you to
Graziela Miot Da Silva, Nicholas Hesp (again!), Jonathan, Phoebe and Sebastian
Hesp, Chary García , María Gallego García, Octavio Pérez-Maqueo, and Valeria
Pérez Martínez.
This book is dedicated to the memory of M. Anwar Maun (1935–2007),
cherished friend and colleague who was a leader in coastal dune ecological studies.
He is dearly missed by us and by all the coastal dune scientific community.
M. Luisa Martínez
Juan B. Gallego-Fernández
Patrick A. Hesp
vi
Preface