Landscape Change: Uses and Services

*Landscape Architecture - Processes and Practices Towards Sustainable Development*

valuation of environmental amenities throughout the application of direct and

Quantitative methods in environmental

indirect methods. Sustainability.

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**Chapter 2**

**Abstract**

Land Uses Allocation: The

Execution of an Artificial

Infrastructures – Madeira

Island – Machico, Portugal

developed to expand the knowledge of this thematic field.

return period, sediment transport, waves

**1. Introduction**

**Keywords:** artificial beach, beach dynamics, coastal protection,

extreme scalar wave height, GIS, maritime climate, maritime flood level,

demand is not satisfied only with the rehabilitation of existing beaches [1].

Currently, there is enormous progress pressure in the coastal zone worldwide, which has resulted in the planning or construction of a large number of coastal developments. This situation requires more than protecting the existing coasts against natural risks, such as coastal erosion and coastal flooding. Typically, there is a need to rehabilitate many coastal areas under pressure from land development in the past and coastal erosion and degradation. However, in some regions, the high

Beach and Its Complementary

*Sérgio Lousada, Luís Loures and Rui Alexandre Castanho*

The present study aims to propose the creation of an artificial beach in the municipality of Machico and its complementary infrastructures, located on the south-eastern coast of the Madeira Island (Portugal). Machico's beach sand consists of a mixture of black volcanic sand and round basalt stones. Usually, it has clear waters and a quiet sea. This beach also has a mooring infrastructure, thus allowing access to the sea. In order to achieve this study's main goals, it was initially carried out an extensive review and bibliographic research. Subsequently, a sand beach and its shelter groins were simulated and designed to hypothetically promote the retention of the sand and mitigate the tidal effects. In addition to model the beach dynamics, an extensive characterization of the extreme maritime regime was performed. The model was developed based on topographic and hydrographic site surveys and the data using Wave Watch III model at 32.0°N, 17.0°W—obtained from SONEL web page, which gathers new data every 6 hours. Besides, the study also contemplated the analysis of the sea inundation quota for a return period of 100 and 500 years and its development along with the Master Plan of the City of Machico. Furthermore, some final remarks and conclusions will be shown; besides, some future projects should be
