She also cited improper construction of sea walls, restaurants and hotels on the
backshore as secondary cause of erosion in the island and gave suggestions on how the management of the coastal environment could help preserve the white sand and other natural features of Boracay.
Sand is gradually accumulating on the
backshore due to aeolian and wave activity, while storms wash those accumulative forms periodically, forming a distinctive scarp at a specific elevation (Tonisson et al.
Amidst this government and private sector infrastructure in the
backshore, traditional activities and a subsistence economy continue, resulting in a proliferation of small wooden sheds and repurposed shipping containers directly adjacent to the high-tide line.
The studied specimen is 84 mm long and was collected on the
backshore December 27, 2005, at Hornitos Bay (22[degrees]52' S, 70[degrees]17' W).
In Atlanta, Georgia, NCR Corporation, manufacturer of ATM machines, has decided that it needed to "
backshore" more of its R&D and manufacturing to the United States to take advantage of state government incentives to train workers as well as capture innovation by engaging local university supply chain and logistics experts.
The
backshore of the beach is limited by urban infrastructures.
Altogether 876 surface samples were collected from dune (if present),
backshore (berm), hightide zone (high water line), midtide zone and lowtide zone (low water line).
A partir de un analisis bidimensional, la playa se representa mediante un perfil transversal, o perfil de playa, que identifica las unidades geomorfologicas desde la playa posterior (
backshore) hasta mas alla de la zona de rompientes (offshore).