%0 Thesis
%9 Master
%A Osswald, Felix
%D 2019
%F theses_frw:734
%T Beyond wind, sand and marram grass. Drawing lessons from Denmark and the Netherlands for dynamic dune management on the island of Sylt (Germany)
%U https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/734/
%X After  more  than  100  years  of  coastal  dune  fixation  on  the  Wadden  island  of  Sylt,  a  more  dynamic  management strategy is desirable to preserve biodiversity and increase the adaptability of the popular tourist destination to a rising sea-level. But how to do it? To answer that question, this Master Thesis examines  the  physical  and  institutional  characteristics  of  the  Dutch  and  Danish  coastal  dune  management strategies and discusses whether they are actually helpful and desirable for the island of Sylt. The Danish past-oriented approach of preserving a cultural landscape and the Dutch more future-oriented strategy to manage dunes multifunctional according to the current societal and ecological needs are principally practical and desirable, if they are adjusted to the domestic institutional and physical characteristics of Sylt. Eventually, the lessons were incorporated in a praxis-oriented framework for initiating this strategic change.