The Sand of Caparica: A History of Human Intervention in a Beach-Dune System (Story Map)

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The Sand of Caparica: A History of Human Intervention in a Beach-Dune System (website).

Sand is a key piece to understand the evolution of Costa da Caparica. The strategies for sand dunes management are connected to perceptions, values and political and economic interests regarding the coast. Today, as in the past, the interventions in the dunes have to do with the protection of assets. But, before, dunes were considered a danger from which human property had to be protected. Now, dunes have a value of their own for the ecosystem services they provide. They are being watched over to secure humans and their properties on the shore. (From the Story Map)

The Sand of Caparica: A History of Human Intervention in a Beach-Dune System is an interactive story map created by Sea, Sand and People: An Environmental History of Coastal Dunes, a research project being developed at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (Portugal). DUNES is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (Grant Agreement no. 802918).

2021 Monique Palma, Ana Marcelino, Ruwan Sampath, João Alveirinho Dias, and Joana Gaspar de Freitas.

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