HSIE - Geography - Year 9 - Environmental change and management: overseas: Nice, Riviera, France

Tourists in Nice have faced a pressing problem this summer. It's not rude waiters, whether to go topless or even beach towel stereotypes, but how to get out of the sea.
The pebble beaches of the Côte d'Azur resort have been eroded so steeply by the waves of the Mediterranean that swimmers are complaining that they have to crawl out of the sea on their hands and knees.

‘Hard’ coastal defence structures in France are rock armouring and sea walls, groins, and breakwaters. Since the 1980s softer coastal and beach protection methods such as beach nourishments have become more popular and now tend to supersede other forms of beach protection. Beach nourishment in France has traditionally been coupled with the aforementioned ‘hard’ structures, used as supporting measures to minimize sand losses and maintenance