Benidorm, Spain

Lead: University of Alicante

Context

Benidorm is a town and municipality in the province of Alicante (Valencian Community) on Spain’s Mediterranean coast.​ It has been a tourist destination within Spain since 1925. Benidorm is known for its hotel industry, beaches, and skyscrapers and receives as many tourists from abroad as from Spain. ​

67,588 (over 400,000 in the summer) inhabitants and 12 km of coastal length​

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Challenges and risks

  • Coastal erosion and its impacts on the coastal ecosystem
  • Coastal flooding

Planned Ecosystem Based Approaches (EBAs)

  • Using berms of the seagrass Posidonia oceanica to prevent shoreline erosion
  • Protecting sand dunes in the backshore to prevent sea level rise flooding
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The other CCLLS

SLIGO
Ireland

DUBLIN
Ireland

OEIRAS
Portugal

PROVINCE OF BARCELONA / VILLANOVA I LA GELTRÙ
Spain

BASQUE COUNTRY
Spain

GDANSK
Poland 

PIRAN
Slovenia

SAMSUN
Turkey

MASSA
Italy