Coastal sand dune are widely distributed through the island of Taiwan due to the steep terrain, abundant rainfall, richness of sand supply, previling typhoon, monsoon and sea-land breeze.
This paper wi11 deal with the formation of the Taiwan dunes and their location, land use and disaster of them. Comparing the foreign organiztions have introduced many complex stratagems in protection and management of coastal dunes, the destruction and change of the Taiwan dunes is clear. Because the dunefields were used as fishery, planting and industrial park, most of the dunes were leveled off entirely. Some of the residual sand dunes still exist at present fixed by windbreak forest.
For the sand dunes have the function of protecting the coast, they had better be well-planned and well-managed so as to maintain the sustainable utilization of this land resoureces.
