Sargassum: Brown Algae on Haiti's Coasts

This presentation brings a concrete ecological issue into the coastal land and planning discussion. Sargassum is not a property dispute or a construction issue, but when it arrives on beaches it affects tourism, public health, shoreline maintenance and local livelihoods, which makes it part of the same coastal governance agenda. The document is useful because it is practical rather than alarmist: it asks what the algae are, where they come from, whether arrivals are likely to repeat, whether leaving them on the coast is a problem, what can be done when they arrive, and what forms of valorisation are possible.