Conclusion, Findings and Recommendations

Abstract

Coastal morphological units such as wetlands, beaches, lagoon, estuaries and sand dunes are always performing several parallel systems such as; provide rich swamping and breeding grounds for marine creatures, feeding grounds for birds, recreational grounds for tourists and available resources for the local communities which have a great importance to modification of coastal morphology. The Balasore district in Odisha, India, is to be found on the coastline and the banks of Subarnarekha, Dugdugi and Burahbalam river. The analysis obviously demonstrated so as to the coastal areas exposed to the sea because of the lack of natural barriers have very high probability of vulnerability and morphological dynamics. The gradual decline in the capacity of the Subarnarekha, Dugdugi and Burahbalam rivers to hold large volumes of water mass received from high magnitude storm events has augmented this vulnerability and dynamics. The intensity and severity of beach morphological alteration are experienced to have increased may be due to recent climate and environment changes. Moreover, river Subarnarekha carries large volume of discharge experiences with gigantic quantity of sediments. This flow of discharge instigates confrontation in its natural flow from the strong south-westerly monsoon wind and resultant cross-shore current, waves and high magnitude tide inflow. This causes accumulation of massive water as well as sediments at Kirtaniya sectors. Specifically, the results from this entire study and also some recommendations by present researchers may help environmental managers to better understand coastal management in different local coastal sectors in the Balasore district in Odisha, India. As such, the results from the entire study may also be helpful for identifying factors that improve resilience and can be incorporated into future planning decisions for coastal vulnerability management in regards of morphological dynamics among the coastal area. Moreover, this type of study can be carried out for other coastal district as well as block level, which would be allowed for the creation of more comprehensive coastal beach morphodynamics maps and a better assessment of the risks associated with beach morphodynamics.