In recent years, several countries such as Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States have been making great efforts to build "soft-engineering" manmade beaches. And this is not only because beaches take responsibility for protecting the land.
近年來包括日本、荷蘭、美國在內的許多國家，均大力從事被稱為「軟性工法」的人工養灘，更因為沙灘不只肩負有保護陸地的功能而已。