« Effective coastal engineering is expensive, but it is not as costly as neglect or ineffective intervention. Good practice needs to be based on sound principles, but theoretical work and modelling also need to be well grounded in practice, which is continuously evolving. Concep…
Design Criteria -- Alternatives for Hazard Mitigation -- Probabilistic Design -- Functional Design -- Structural Design -- Beach Engineering -- Economics Risk and Resilience -- Pile Supported Structures -- Environmental Impacts -- Sea Level Rise. "This timely book is abou…
"This timely book is about how to design alternatives to reduce coastal flood and wave damage, erosion, and loss of ecosystems facing an unknown future of sea level rise. The latest theories are interlaced with applied examples from the authors' 48 years of experience in teachin…
"This timely book is about how to design alternatives to reduce coastal flood and wave damage, erosion, and loss of ecosystems facing an unknown future of sea level rise. The latest theories are interlaced with applied examples from the authors' 48 years of experience in teachin…
Chapter 1. Managed realignment and its context -- Chapter 2. Stakeholder ecologies and managed realignment -- Chapter 3. Inventing managed realignment -- Chapter 4. The community of reception of managed realignment -- Chapter 5. Making the new wetlands: the sites of managed real…
"Significant changes are affecting coastlines around the world due to economic pressures and climate change. This book addresses the social, cultural and political context of the process of managed coastal realignment, the strategic abandonment of the coast, as a means of coping…
Discusses the functions of revetments and the different aspects of structural performance. This book aims to enable the engineer to choose the most stable, appropriate and cost-effective revetment system, for a given situation.
The world{u2019}s population is expected to increase to over 8 billion by 2020. About 60% of the total population of the world lives in coastal areas and 65% of the cities with a population of over 2.5 million are located in coastal areas. Written by an international panel of ex…
Coastal communities are at the frontline of a changing climate. Escalating problems created by sea-level rise, a greater number of severe coastal storms, and other repercussions of climate change will exacerbate already pervasive impacts resulting from rapid coastal population g…
Coastal communities are in the front line of a changing climate. Escalating problems created by sea-level rise, a greater number of severe coastal storms and other repercussions of climate change will exacerbate already pervasive impacts resulting from rapd coastal population gr…
