Pitfalls of shoreline stabilization [electronic resource] : selected case studies / editors: J. Andrew G. Cooper, Orrin H. Pilkey.
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 sea...
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| Series: | Coastal research library ;
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Table of Contents:
- Pitfalls of Shoreline Stabilisation
- Tweed River Mouth, Gold Coast, Australia / Steven Brayshaw and Charles Lemckert
- Adelaide Beach Management 1836-2025 / Andrew D. Short
- Pitfalls of Ebb-Shoal Mining / Charles W. Finkl
- Documenting Beach Loss in Front of Seawalls in Puerto Rico: Pitfalls of Engineering a Small Island Nation Shore / Chester W. Jackson Jr, David M. Bush and William J. Neal
- Narratives of Shoreline Erosion and Protection at Shishmaref, Alaska: The Anecdotal and the Analytical / Owen K. Mason, James W. Jordan, Leanne Lestak and William F. Manley
- Portballintrae Bay, Northern Ireland: 116 Years of Misplaced Management / Derek W.T. Jackson
- Beach Nourishment in the United States / Andrew S. Coburn
- Failed Coastal Stabilization: Examples from the KwaZulu-Natal Coast, South Africa / Alan M. Smith, Simon C. Bundy and Andrew A. Mather
- Presque Isle Breakwaters: Successful Failures? / Orrin H. Pilkey
- Armoring on Eroding Coasts Leads to Beach Narrowing and Loss on Oahu, Hawaii / Bradley M. Romine and Charles H. Fletcher
- Compromising Reef Island Shoreline Dynamics: Legacies of the Engineering Paradigm in the Maldives / Paul S. Kench
- Alternative Shoreline Erosion Control Devices: A Review / Orrin H. Pilkey and J. Andrew G. Cooper
- Bad Practice in Erosion Management: The Southern Sicily Case Study / Giorgio Anfuso, José Ángel Martínez-del-Pozo and Nelson Rangel-Buitrago
- The History of Shoreline Stabilization on the Spanish Costa del Sol / Gonzalo C. Malvárez
- Coastal Defense in NW Portugal: The Improbable Victory / Helena Granja and José Luís Pinho
- Stabilizing the Forgotten Shore: Case Study from the Delaware Bay / Hilary Stevens and Arthur Trembanis
- Shoreline Stabilisation: Lessons from South Wales / Michael R. Phillips
- Coastal Stabilization Practice in France / Edward J. Anthony and François Sabatier.