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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Beach renourishment is the restoration of beaches that have been depleted. The text deals with the sources of beach sediment as well as the causes and typical responses to beach erosion, before discussion of beach renourishment.
Some of the first documented renourishment projects were undertaken in the early 1900’s on the east coast of the United States. Several countries have since renourished beaches, particularly during the past few decades. Most projects have been in the United States, the United Kingdom, some European countries and Australia. These are reviewed and experience from various beach renourishment projects used for discussion of the following topics:
1. The need for preliminary investigations
2. Â Sources of sediment for beach renourishment
3. Methods of beach renourishment
4. Design considerations
5. Monitoring changes after beach renourishment
6. Assessment of performance
7. Modelling of beach renourishment
8. Beach renourishment for coast protection
9. Environmental impacts
10. Costs and benefits
11. Response of renourished beaches to a rising sea level
Keywords
- Beach Erosion and Beach Management
- Beach Fill and Beach Nourishment
- Beach Fill and Beach Renourishment
- Beach Nourishment
- Beach Renourishment
- Coastal Erosion and Beach Fill
- Coastal Management and Beach Nourishment
- Coastal Management and Beach Renourishment
- Shore Nourishment
- Shore Renourishment
- coastal sciences
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Geography, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Eric Bird
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Royal HaskoningDHV, Sydney, Australia
Nick Lewis
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beach Renourishment
Authors: Eric Bird, Nick Lewis
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09728-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-09727-5Published: 22 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-09728-2Published: 30 September 2014
Series ISSN: 2191-5369
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5377
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 137
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 57 illustrations in colour
Topics: Coastal Sciences, Oceanography, Biogeosciences, Physical Geography