Premiers effets du rehaussement artificiel d'une plage sableuse le long de la côte belge

Mainly by beach profiling and beach budget computation the author studies the evolution of an erosional coastal megaprotuberance, hitting a section of the Belgian coast and provoking a lowering of the beach anda retreat of the dune foot. He elaborates a comparison of the first six months evolution of an artificial beach in that section made by sand nourishment using the Longard method, and that one of the adjacent natural beach.