Living Shorelines Australia: 200 Nature-Based Coastal Protection Projects

A national inventory of 200 nature-based coastal protection projects across Australia. The database was compiled by the Living Shorelines Australia project and is maintained by The University of Melbourne. It was established in 2022 under the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub Project 1.10 and has been updated since.

Use Cases

• Identify suitable nature-based coastal protection methods based on project examples and contexts described.
• Assess the effectiveness of 'soft' or 'hybrid' engineering approaches based on documented project outcomes.
• Support decision-making for coastal adaptation by analyzing where and how living shoreline projects have been implemented.

Strengths

• Contains 200 documented projects, providing a substantial inventory of examples.
• Data collection involved direct engagement with coastal managers and stakeholders, suggesting practitioner input.
• Projects are categorized by approach ('soft' or 'hybrid'), aiding comparative analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Living Shorelines Australia project, The University of Melbourne, NESP Marine and Coastal Hub.

Collection Method

Collected through direct stakeholder engagement, literature search, and informal internet searching.

Time Range

Projects identified from 2022 onward, with ongoing updates.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-23 04:33:24.716372; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia