Abstract:
Since the 21
st century, beach nourishment projects have been successively carried out in many coastal tourist cities in China, and the effect evaluation after the beach nourishment has come into being. By the analyses of literatures and statistical data, the development status of the beach nourishment effect evaluation in China in the past 10 years is summarized and for the problems existing at the current stage some suggestions and countermeasures are proposed. It has been found that the effect evaluation of the beach nourishment in China was still in a theoretical research stage before 2010 and the three aspects of evaluation scale, evaluation factors and monitoring methods were all characterized with an early development stage. From the researches on the index system of the beach nourishment effect evaluation carried out by domestic scholars in recent 5 years, it can be seen that the evaluation levels, the evaluation indexes and the evaluation contents tend to be clear, detailed and perfect gradually. Based on the analysis of the current situation, three problems in the research and practice of beach nourishment effect evaluation in China and the suggestions and countermeasures for the problems are put forward. Meanwhile, the future applications of the beach nourishment effect evaluation are prospected.