According to Hsu Shih-hsiung, a professor in the water resources and environmental engineering department at Tamkang University, in the country that is most advanced in the development and use of the sea-the Netherlands-the coastline is covered with large, broad dunes and wind-breaking forests. In the US as well, coastal erosion is being reduced with more aesthetically and environmentally friendly means.
淡江大學水資源及環境工程學系教授許時雄指出，在開發利用海岸先驅國荷蘭，海岸是寬大的沙丘與防風林；美國則採取柵定沙與人工養灘方式來減低海岸侵蝕。