What connects the sci-fi book Dune with coastal dunes and geoengineering? The answer lies in humans and their world-making activities. This paper proposes an innovative approach to coastal dunes as hybrid environments by analyzing the dunes stabilization programs developed on the US Pacific Coast. It looks into the shifting sands of the Oregon coast and how they influenced Frank Herbert to write his novel, why local communities and federal authorities were interested in fixing the moving dunes and how these works ended up having unexpected consequences. It explores how human features acting as forcing mechanisms on beach-dune systems caused changes that turned into controlling influences in their own right, creating new environments and concerns. The paper ends with a reflection on how fiction and the history of dunes can be used to critically think about the anthropocentric hubris of building futures by geoengineering the planet for environmental repair.

什么连接科幻书沙丘沿海沙丘和地球工程？答案在于人类及其创造世界的活动。本文通过分析在美国太平洋沿岸开发的沙丘稳定计划，提出了一种将沿海沙丘作为混合环境的创新方法。它研究了俄勒冈海岸的流沙，以及它们如何影响弗兰克赫伯特写他的小说，为什么当地社区和联邦当局有兴趣修复移动的沙丘，以及这些作品如何最终产生意想不到的后果。它探讨了人类特征如何作为海滩沙丘系统的强制机制导致变化，这些变化本身就变成了控制影响，创造了新的环境和关注点。