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Pitfalls of Shoreline Stabilization Selected Case Studies /
At the coast all is not what it seems. Decades of beachfront development have seen a variety of efforts to stabilize the shoreline to protect ill-placed beachfront property, both from shoreline erosion and from storm damage. Both of these problems become increasingly critical in a time of rising se...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2012. |
| Colección: | Coastal Research Library,
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- 1. Pitfalls of Shoreline Stabilisation - Tweed River Mouth, Gold Coast, Australia
- 2. Adelaide beach management 1836-2025
- 3. Pitfalls of ebb shoal mining
- 4. Documenting beach loss in front of seawalls in Puerto Rico: pitfalls of engineering a small island-nation shore
- 5. Narratives of shoreline erosion and protection at Shishmaref, Alaska: the anecdotal and the analytical
- 6. Portballintrae Bay, Northern Ireland: 116 years of misplaced management
- 7. Beach Nourishment in the United States
- 8. Failed Coastal stabilization: examples from the KwaZulu-Natal Coast, South Africa
- 9. Presque Isle Breakwaters: successful failures? - 10. Armoring on Eroding Coasts Leads to Beach Narrowing and Loss on Oahu, Hawaii
- 11. Compromising Reef Island Shoreline Dynamics: Legacies of the Engineering Paradigm in the Maldives
- 12. "Alternative" shoreline erosion control devices: a review
- 13. Bad practice in erosion management: the Southern Sicily case study
- 14. The history of shoreline stabilization on the Spanish Costa del Sol
- 15. Coastal defense in NW Portugal: the improbable victory
- 16. Stabilizing the Forgotten Shore: Case study from the Delaware Bay
- 17. Shoreline stabilisation: lessons from South Wales
- 18. Coastal Stabilization Practice in France
- Index.