Soft Shore Protection

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Softer Solutions to Coastal Erosion: Making the Transition from Resistance to Resilience

   • Vincent May

   Pages 1-16

3. Nourishing Eroding Beaches: Examples from the West-Central Coast of Florida

   • Richard A. Davis Jr.

   Pages 17-28

4. Relative Significance of Background Erosion and Spreading Losses: An Aid for Beach Nourishment Design

   • Robert G. Dean

   Pages 29-37

5. The Use of Relict Sand Lying on the Continental Shelf for Unprotected Beach Nourishment

   • Francesco L. Chiocci, Giovanni B. La Monica

   Pages 39-48

6. Predicting Morphological Changes on a Complex 3D Site Using the Genesis Model

   • I. Mariño-Tapia, P. E. Russell

   Pages 49-69

7. Methodology of Sandy Beach Stabilization by Nourishment: A Long-Term Morphodynamic Modelling Approach

   • B. Ontowirjo, C. D. Istiyanto

   Pages 71-79

8. Stochastic Economic Optimisation Model for the Coastal Zone

   • S. Van Vuren, M. Kok, R. E. Jorissen

   Pages 81-104

9. Shoreline Changes Induced by a Submerged Groin System

   • Th. V. Karambas, Ch. Koutitas, S. Christopoulos

   Pages 105-114

10. Development of the Coastal Embankment System in Bangladesh

    • Markus Saari, Saeedur Rahman

    Pages 115-125

11. Configuration Dredging — An Alternative to Groynes & Offshore Breakwaters

    • H. P. Riedel, P. O’Brien, R. Smith

    Pages 127-136

12. Non-Linear Wave and Sediment Transport Model for Beach Profile Evolution with Application to Soft Shore Protection Methods

    • Th. V. Karambas, C. Koutitas

    Pages 137-149

13. ‘Soft’ Solutions for Beach Protection and Revival along the Herzliya Eroded Beaches, Central Israel Mediterranean Coast

    • Yaacov Nir, Morris Perpignan

    Pages 151-156

14. Field Experiments in Relation to a Gravity-Drained System as a Soft Shore Protection Measure

    • Kazumasa Katoh, Shinn-Ichi Yanagishima, Iwao Hasegawa, Akiyoshi Katano

    Pages 157-170

15. Short-Term Field Experiments on Beach Transformation under the Operation of a Coastal Drain System

    • Michio Sato, Ryuichiro Nishi, Kazuo Nakamura, Takao Sasaki

    Pages 171-182

16. Alternative to Traditional Ways of Treating Shoreline Erosion

    • Dick Holmberg

    Pages 183-198

17. Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Submerged Groin as Soft Shore Protection

    • Pierluigi Aminti, Chiara Cammelli, Luigi E. Cipriani, Enzo Pranzini

    Pages 199-210

18. Artificial Reef Methodology for Coastal Protection Using Submerged Structures: A Numerical Modeling Approach

    • B. Ontowirjo, H. D. Armono

    Pages 211-225

19. Soft Protection Using Submerged Groin Arrangements: Dynamic Analysis of System Stability and Review of Application Impacts

    • C. L. Goudas, G. A. Katsiaris, G. Labeas, G. Karahalios, G. Pnevmatikos

    Pages 227-260

20. ‘Back to the Beach’: Converting Seawalls into Gravel Beaches

    • Pierluigi Aminti, Luigi E. Cipriani, Enzo Pranzini

    Pages 261-274

Global warming, melting polar caps, rising sea levels and intensifying wave-current action, factors responsible for the alarming phenomena of coastal erosion on the one hand and adverse environmental impacts and the high cost of 'hard' protection schemes, on the other, have created interest in the detailed examination of the potential and range of applicability of the emerging and promising category of 'soft' shore protection methods. 'Soft' methods such as beach nourishment, submerged breakwaters, artificial reefs, gravity drain systems, floating breakwaters, plantations of hydrophylous shrubs or even dry branches, applied mostly during the past 20 years, are recognised as possessing technical, environmental and financial advantageous properties deserving more attention and further developmental experimentation than has occured hitherto. On the other hand, 'hard' shore protection methods such as seawalls, groins and detached breakwaters, artefacts borrowed from port design and construction technology, no matter how well designed and well implemented they may be, can hardly avoid intensification of the consequential erosive, often devastating, effects on the down-drift shores. Moreover, they often do not constitute environmentally and financially attractive solutions for long stretches of eroding shoreline. Engineers and scientists practising design and implementation of shore defence schemes have been aware for many years of the public demand for improved shore protection technologies. They are encouraging efforts that promise enrichment of those environmentally sound and financially attractive methods that can be safely applied.

• Coast
• Delta
• Erosion
• Ocean
• Oceanography
• Profil
• Transport
• hydrogeology

• Studium of Mechanics, Department of Mathematics, University of Patras, Greece

  Constantine Goudas, George Katsiaris

• School of Conservation Sciences, Bournemouth University, UK

  Vincent May

• Department of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

  Theophanis Karambas

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