"This manual has been designed to provide guidance on the principal issues surrounding the use of timber in coastal and river engineering." "Whilst primarily intended for practising engineers, the manual will also be a useful reference for students, procurement specialists and t…
"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…