"The construction of coastal defences has allowed many people to live and work in safety in areas of the United Kingdom that would otherwise have been lost to the sea. - However, building and maintaining such defences is a difficult and expensive undertaking, with inevitable con…
Planning, designing, building and managing coastal defences in a cost-effective, environmentally acceptable and sustainable manner is a complicated undertaking. Coastal Defence offers an introductory handbook to this challenging subject matter.
"The construction of coastal defences has allowed many people to live and work in safety in areas of the United Kingdom that would otherwise have been lost to the sea. However, building and maintaining such defences is a difficult and expensive undertaking, with inevitable conse…