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Coastal erosion in the Waikato region

An Environment Waikato web page that examines coastal erosion problems in the Coromandel Peninsula and on the west coast of Waikato.
Coastal hazards and climate change: a guidance manual for local government in New Zealand

This Ministry for the Environment publication provides local authorities with guidelines on climate change and coastal hazards, particularly coastal erosion.
Department of Conservation – marine and coastal conservation

This page of the Department of Conservation site links to the New Zealand Coastal Policy Statement (1994) and an independent review (2004), both in PDF format. The policy statement provides a framework for dealing with coastal planning issues, including coastal erosion.
Rates of coastal erosion and accretion in New Zealand

This is the abstract, with a link to the full article in PDF format, of an important paper (1978) in the New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research that reviewed the evidence for coastal erosion around New Zealand. The paper has been the basis of many subsequent studies of coastal erosion.
The shoreline erosion problem: lessons from the past

This 2001 article comes from Water & Atmosphere, published by New Zealand’s National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research.
Snatching knowledge from the sea

This 2002 article from Heritage New Zealand, published by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, details how coastal erosion is exposing an old Māori settlement site on the Otago coast.

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Coastal hazard strategy: coastal erosion management manual. CD-ROM. Auckland: Auckland Regional Council, 2000.
de Lange, W. P. ‘Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO): a mechanism for forcing decadal scale coastal change on the northeast coast of New Zealand.’ Journal of Coastal Research 34 (2001): 657–664.
French, P. W. Coastal and estuarine management. London: Routledge, 1997.
Goff, James R., Scott L. Nichol, and Helen L. Rouse, eds. The New Zealand coast: te tai o Aotearoa. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press/Te Whitireia/Daphne Brasell Associates, 2003.
McKelvey, P. J. Sand forests: a historical perspective of the stabilisation and afforestation of coastal sands in New Zealand. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 1999.
Payne, George, and others. New Zealand's sandy coasts. CD-ROM. Hamilton: NIWA, 2003.

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Coastal erosion in the Waikato region

Coastal hazards and climate change: a guidance manual for local government in New Zealand

Department of Conservation – marine and coastal conservation

Rates of coastal erosion and accretion in New Zealand

The shoreline erosion problem: lessons from the past

Snatching knowledge from the sea

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