Coastal structures are an important component in any coastal protection scheme. They directly control wave and storm surge action or to stabilize a beach which provides protection to the coast. This book provides the most up-to-date technical advances on the design and construct…
« 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…
Introduction : a primer to living shorelines / Donna Bilkovic, Molly Mitchell, Jason Toft, and Megan La Peyre -- Living shorelines for people and nature / Katie Arkema, Steven Scyphers, and Christine Shepard -- Permitting a living shoreline : a look at the legral framework gover…
"[This book] synthesizes and interprets the current state of the knowledge on the science and practice of nature-based shoreline protection. This book will serve as a valuable reference to guide scientists, students, managers, planners, regulators, environmental and engineering …
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.
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…
