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Roma Bodycomb, Andrew W. M. Pomeroy and Rebecca L. Morris
Suspended kelp canopies have the potential to provide a coastal protection service in addition to their primary function of generating a sustainable resource. In this study, the attenuation of incident waves by kelp suspended from the surface was quantif...
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Celso Aleixo Pinto, Rui Taborda, César Andrade, Paulo Baptista, Paulo Alves Silva, Diogo Mendes and Joaquim Pais-Barbosa
Current coastal protection strategy in Portugal defines beach and shoreface nourishment as a valid measure to mitigate coastal erosion in some erosional hot-spots, being considered as an adaptation measure under the present climate change scenario, inclu...
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Fabrizio Greco and Paolo Lonetti
Vulnerability analyses of coastal or inland bridges in terms of flood actions and structural and fluid flow characteristics are carried out. In particular, a numerical model based on a two-phase fluid flow is implemented for the multiphase fluid system, ...
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Dmitry V. Kovalevsky and Jürgen Scheffran
Coastal zones are experiencing rapid urbanization at unprecedented rates. At the same time, coastal cities are the most prone to climate-related vulnerability, including impacts of sea-level rise and climate-related coastal hazards under the present and ...
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Giovanni De Falco, Simone Simeone, Alessandro Conforti, Walter Brambilla and Emanuela Molinaroli
The compatibility of sediments in terms of grain size, composition and colour among beaches and strategic sediment deposits (SSD) along Western Sardinia (Western Mediterranean Sea) were assessed to explore management strategy in the protection and adapta...
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Yongsong Su, Song Song, Lichun Xie and Zhenyu He
Nitrogen pollution has caused severe ecological and environmental crisis, especially in densely populated coastal regions. Using a mathematical model based on statistical data series from industry, agriculture, environmental protection, and population in...
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Daniel Ware, Andrew Buckwell, Rodger Tomlinson, Kerrie Foxwell-Norton and Neil Lazarow
Climate change impacts, sea level rise, and changes to the frequency and intensity of storms, in particular, are projected to increase the coastal land and assets exposed to coastal erosion. The selection of appropriate adaptation strategies requires an ...
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Md Al Imran, Shuya Kimura, Kazunori Nakashima, Niki Evelpidou and Satoru Kawasaki
In recent years, traditional material for coastal erosion protection has become very expensive and not sustainable and eco-friendly for the long term. As an alternative countermeasure, this study focused on a sustainable biological ground improvement tec...
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Sérgia Costa-Dias, Ana Machado, Catarina Teixeira and Adriano A. Bordalo
Temperate estuarine beaches are an asset to coastal cities. Being located within the transition zone where the river meets the sea can provide several environmental benefits such as warm water temperature during the summer, flat waters, protection from c...
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María Muñoz, Andreas Reul, María Del Carmen García-Martínez, Francisco Plaza, Begoña Bautista, Francina Moya and Manuel Vargas-Yáñez
The Cape of Gata region (southeast Spain) allocates the thermo-haline Almeria?Oran front (AOF), which separates two biogeographical zones, with a very irregular bathymetry, consisting of two canyons and seamounts in an area of 100 × 100 km. An interdisci...
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