Guernsey needs new ways of making money to fund projects like improving coastal defences, the chief minister has said.
The flood victims died on 31 January when sea water breached the coastal defences causing widespread damage along England's east coast.
This can include clearing drains, improving storm barriers and coastal defences, or putting in place planning regulations to discourage development in high-risk areas such as flood plains.
"This large body of work came out of a project I photographed about six years ago that included in its locations two of these coastal defences, " says Wilson.
The idea of inserting an artificial surfing reef has emerged during talks in the last two years on renewing Borth's coastal defences which are approaching the end of their effective life.
Mr Hooper said maram grass would be planted at Grandes Rocques and Port Soif to "shore up the softer coastal defences" and they were looking at possibly encouraging it to grow elsewhere.
Even coastal defences built to withstand the strongest tropical storms may be little use when struck by a wall of water up to 10m high, as hit some Asian countries on Sunday.
Yet within it there are traces of the past that surface from time to time, yet one past trace that I'm sure those of us who live in the British Isles have all seen are the coastal defences rapidly constructed during World War II.
The flooding, which began on the night of 31 January, was caused by a combination of a high spring tide, deep atmospheric low pressure which raised sea levels and exceptionally strong northerly gales, which led to a surge of sea water over coastal defences.
The Environment Agency said 1, 500 homes in low-lying areas would be at risk from flooding and coastal erosion without the flood defences.
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