[1] The recovery portion of the sustainable cycle of sediment behaviour is named accretion.
The sediment that is submerged during rough weather forms landforms including storm bars.
On many inhabited coastlines, anthropogenic interference in coastal processes has meant that erosion is often more permanent than submersion.
The term erosion often is associated with undesirable impacts on the environment, whereas submersion is a sustainable part of healthy foreshores.
Communities making decisions about coastal management need to develop understanding of the components of beach recession and be able to separate the component that is temporary sustainable submersion from the more serious irreversible anthropogenic or climate change erosion portion.