1. 85% of Australians live within 50km of the coast meaning that they are constantly being used by our population.
2. So the population may continually use the coasts for recreation and business (ie. Tourism)
3. It is a common belief that to move to the sea from inland results in a more relaxing away from crazy cities. This is known as sea change.
4. Small towns on the coast who have had large amounts of people move there from the cities have set residential caps so as to stop overdevelopment.
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6. Pollution affects are coasts in the form of storm drains washing rubbish and chemicals not far enough into the ocean so that they can be blown back onto our coastlines.
7. Development to close to sand dunes can cause increased erosion of the sand dunes and beach.
8. Over usage of the beach can cause sand degradation and destabilisation of the dunes causing increased erosion and less beach
9. Introduced plants used to stabilize sand dunes can overtake natives and not have the same stabilizing effect
6. Geographers discover the best way to help balance protecting coastlines and the viewpoints of others who want to develop or use it for activities such as boating so they can be continually used by the population.