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• ICZM-Best practice case study in the Bay of Luebeck
  ...(Editors), Baltic Coastal Ecosystems: Structure, function and coastal zone management. Central Eastern development Studies. Springer, Berlin, pp. 377-388.</ref>) ...y are called Timmendorfer Strand and Scharbeutz and they are two respected coastal holiday resorts.
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• Characteristics of muddy coasts
  ...occurs in tropical climates where rivers supply abundant fine material to coastal zone (CZ). Wave exposure is normally low to moderate; the tidal regime can ...can cause severe problems, decreasing biodiversity and causing erosion and flooding.
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• Definitions of coastal terms
  ...tly used in the Coastal Wiki. The focus is on terms related to '''physical coastal processes and engineering'''. A complementary list of definitions related t ...tions are based on the related Coastal Wiki articles. Terms related to the coastal profile are illustrated in the figure below.
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• Human causes of coastal erosion
  ...lternating phases of erosion and accretion. [[Definitions of coastal terms#Coastal erosion|Structural erosion or accretion]] can only happen in response to st ...ment guidelines. DHI https://www.dhigroup.com/marine-water/ebook-shoreline-management-guidelines</ref>.
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• Dune stabilisation
  [[Dune]]s are a natural coastal feature on moderately exposed and exposed coasts. [[Dune]]s are formed by t ...y flexible buffer zone, which protects the hinterland from [[erosion]] and flooding. The eroded material supplies material to the littoral budget minimising th
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• Seawall
  ...astal erosion and other damage due to wave action and storm surge, such as flooding. Seawalls are normally very massive structures because they are designed to ...cation of the coastline, but it will not arrest the ongoing erosion in the coastal profile. On the contrary, it will to a varying degree, accelerate the erosi
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• Revetment
  ...the definition of a seawall, however a revetment does not protect against flooding. Furthermore, a revetment is often a supplement to other types of protectio ...tments]]: article on the effectiveness of seawalls and revetments to solve coastal engineering problems.
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• Shore nourishment
  ...of coastal nourishments requires insight into the processes that shape the coastal profile. For an introduction to these processes, the reader is referred to ...ource (borrow area) at a sufficient distance from the project area so that coastal hydrodynamics remain unaffected.
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• Sea defence
  ...rtificial dunes<ref name=”Karsten”>Mangor, Karsten. 2004. “Shoreline Management Guidelines”. DHI Water and Environment, 294pp.</ref>. ...e plants and animals occurring there.See also the article [[threats to the coastal zone]].
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• Coastline
  ...ion that designates the boundary between land and sea for use in shoreline management, see the article [[Shoreline]]. * providing a representative estimate of trends in coastal erosion or coastal accretion;
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• Dune
  {{Definition|title= Subaerial coastal sand dunes ...ible sand reservoir<ref name="Karsten">Mangor, Karsten. 2004. “Shoreline Management Guidelines”. DHI Water and Environment, 294pp.</ref>.
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• Sea level rise
  ...m average sea-level rise relative to the local land level, as derived from coastal tide gauges. }} ...s the rising trend averaged over longer periods, which is observed at many coastal stations since more than a century. Global warming due to human emissions o
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• Shoreline management
  {{Definition|title=Shoreline management ...ment guidelines. DHI https://www.dhigroup.com/marine-water/ebook-shoreline-management-guidelines</ref>:
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• Foresight project, UK
  ...ticle presents an overview of a major UK study: The UK Foresight Flood and Coastal Defence Project (2004). It summarises the aims and scope of the project, th ...e the best available science to provide a challenging vision for flood and coastal defence in the UK between 2030 and 2100 and so inform long-term policy.
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• Threats to the coastal zone
  ...from human activities and pressures. It discusses generic modifications to coastal [[ecosystem]]s in relation to specific human activities and introduces the ...re and acidity and the increase of the estimated cumulative impact for the coastal zones was estimated to be due for more than 80% to increasing sea surface t
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• Total economic value in coastal management practice
  ...f inspiration for painters and poets). A key notion for valuation is that coastal zones are a so-called 'scarce resource', with limited availability and comp ...extent to which the use positively or negatively affects the value of the coastal zone. But what is that value and how can it be determined?
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• Risk and coastal zone policy: example from the Netherlands
  ...e Netherlands is further elaborated and after that a brief overview of the Coastal zone policy in the Netherlands is given. ...y of occurrence. The level of the flood defence also on the value in the [[coastal hinterland|hinterland]]. Besides the design level, a probability of failure
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• Blue carbon sequestration
  ...Blue Carbon’ refers to the carbon sequestered by the world’s ocean or coastal vegetated ecosystems. }} ...he 19th century<ref>Li, X., Bellerby, R., Craft, C. and Widney, S.E. 2018. Coastal wetland loss, consequences, and challenges for restoration. Anthropocene Co
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• Dune erosion
  ...]]. The coastal dune belt in many cases protects low-lying hinterland from flooding by the sea. Dune erosion therefore can be a serious threat. ...places<ref>Den Heijer, C. 2013. The role of bathymetry, wave obliquity and coastal curvature in dune erosion prediction. PhD Thesis, Delft University</ref>.
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• French case studies: RESPONSE project
  ...of the LIFE Environment / RESPONSE project '''Impact of climate change on coastal risks'''. ...re likely to be put at risk, and underlining critical points in regards to coastal risk and climate change.
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• Case study: Applying ASMITA to UK estuaries
  ...al coastal defences, protecting the low lying land surround estuaries from flooding. Estuaries may also be used for recreational activities such as sailing, f ...nd morphologies of estuaries can lead to complex and sometimes conflicting management demands. In order to manage estuaries effectively it is important to be abl
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• Global Forum of Oceans, Coasts and Islands
  ...onomic Zone already have limited capacity to manage those zones, and these management issues will only be compounded by [[climate change]]. ...global impacts, to monitoring and management approaches across vulnerable coastal and marine [[ecosystems]], and to the benefits as well as the risks of [[cl
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• Coastal management
  {{Definition|title=coastal management ...rated coastal zone management]], both stressing the interrelated nature of coastal [[ecosystems]] with each other and the cross-cutting implications of human
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• Birds Directive, Habitats Directive, NATURA 2000
  * Encourage the management of features of the landscape which are essential for the migration, dispers ...changes in annual and seasonal precipitation, desertification, erosion and flooding; and this will in turn affect birds, protected habitats and conservation ar
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• Stakeholder analysis
  ...t. It provides an introduction to a new qualitative approach to developing management strategies through a [[Problem structuring in decision-making processes|str ...cess of a project or a planning process. When an [[Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)]] process is launched, this requires the involvement of any relevant
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• Light revetments built-in into artificial dunes
  ...Maritime Offices (in Gdynia, Słupsk and Szczecin) has the Inspectorate of Coastal Protection, responsible for defence measures undertaken at individual shore ...f Parliament of Republic of Poland (2003) on establishment of long term ‘Coastal Protection Program’ (see [[Policy in Poland]])</ref>).
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• Biodiversity in the European Seas
  ...surface area of 750 000 km². It is rather a young ecosystem formed by the flooding of a landmass some 20 000 years ago. Its coast and waters are still being c ...fects of fisheries on marine biodiversity|fisheries]], [[Eutrophication in coastal environments|eutrophication]], offshore industry, maritime traffic, industr
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• Salinization adaptation and freshwater supply for agriculture in the Dutch Delta
  ...utions, is dealt with in the article [[Groundwater management in low-lying coastal zones]]. ...omic development of the Delta region was highly stimulated. Safety against flooding is nowadays on a high standard, nonetheless [[sea level rise]] and [[climat
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• Coastal grazing marsh
  ...dlife'', '''6/2''', 89-98.</ref> (Ward 1994), 'coastal wet grassland' and 'coastal grazing marsh'. ...ore specifically ‘coastal grazing marsh’ is applied to sites where the coastal wet grassland is derived from marine sediments (mostly those from which a [
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• Mangroves
  ...ctioning and adaptation to habitat conditions. An introduction is given to management aspects, discussing threats, conservation and [[Ecosystem rehabilitation|re ...tal Engineering 94: 47–62</ref>). Mangals therefore fulfill an important coastal protection function.
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• Seagrass meadows
  ...ngs and seahorses. They are important for the geomorphology and ecology of coastal ecosystems through processes such as stabilizing sediments, recycling nutri ...s generally inhabit the protected shallow waters of temperate and tropical coastal areas. Seagrass can be patchy, but more often it forms large swaths of vege
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• Coastal squeeze
  {{Definition|title=Coastal squeeze ...Pontee, N. 2013. Defining coastal squeeze: A discussion. Ocean and Coastal Management 84: 204-207</ref>}}
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• Experiences with beach nourishments in Portugal
  ...utions. For definitions of coastal terms, see the article [[definitions of coastal terms]]. For information on different types of nourishment, see [[shore nou ===Type of coastal erosion===
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• Spatial and temporal variability of salt marshes
  A [[Salt_marshes | salt marsh]] (Figure 1) is a tidal wetland in the upper coastal intertidal zone between salty or brackish water. They replace [[mangroves]] ...hes<ref name="Salt marsh"/>. Salt marshes protect the lowlands from marine flooding by damping storm and waves and by slowing flows pushing inland (Allen, 2000
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• Revetments
  ...er be buried into an artificial dune. (Danish Coastal Authority<ref>Danish Coastal Authority, 1998. "Menneske, Hav, Kyst og Sand". (in Danish), (Man, Sea Coas ...cation of the coastline, but it will not arrest the ongoing erosion in the coastal profile, and the beach in front of the revetment will gradually disappear.
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• Coastal protection
  {{ Definition| title = Coastal protection ...ften at the expense of losing the beach and the dynamic coastal landscape. Coastal protection often consists of hard structures such as revetments, [[#Breakwa
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• Economic Value
  ...roductivity and [[biodiversity]], and the increased likelihood of drought, flooding, storm and extreme events). :[[Values of amenities in coastal zones]]
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• Socio-economic evaluation
  [[Image:builddecision.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Figure 1. Generic flowchart for coastal project evaluation]] ...re used to assist in Coastal Management and making decisions regarding the coastal zone.
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• Salt marshes
  In 2008 the European Union commissioned a series of Habitat Management Models for several of the more important communities. Included is a model f ...a2000/management/habitats/models_en.htm] to download a copy of the Habitat Management Model for the above community.
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• Thermohaline circulation of the oceans
  ...meter may occur during a Southern Ocean event (Fig. 4). In many sensitive coastal areas the sea-level rise could be over 1 meter. It is important to note th ==Overview of impacts for coastal regions==
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• Coastal defence
  Definition|title=Coastal defence ...defence]] against flooding.<ref name="CIRIA (1996)"> CIRIA (1996). ''Beach management manual''. CIRIA Report 153.</ref>.}}
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• Flood risk analysis study at the German Bight Coast
  ...results of calculating the flooding probability are used to derive [[flood|flooding]]/[[breaching]] scenarios, which up to now have been based on experience an ...ing at the German North Sea Coast combining failure probabilities of the [[coastal defence]] system with micro-scale socio-economic vulnerability analysis.
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• IMCORE project
  IMCORE stands for Innovative Management for Europe’s Changing Coastal Resource. ...ebsite]), the €6m IMCORE project will be led by the [http://cmrc.ucc.ie/ Coastal & Marine Resources Centre] in University College Cork until its end in 2011
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• Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM)
  |title=Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) ...isolation [https://www.natureserve.org/conservation-tools/ecosystem-based-management-tools-network]
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• ICZM-Best practice case study in Western Zeelandic-Flanders
  ...euwsch-Vlaanderen, OKRA Landschapsarchitecten, Utrecht, pp. 130.</ref> the coastal region today can be divided into two different areas. The North Sea coast ( ...jt et al., 2000<ref name="k1"/>). This process should be coupled to a safe coastal protection integrating the most important economic and social concerns (ibi
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• Coastal cities and sea level rise
  ...ulnerable to sea level rise and extreme conditions at sea. The focus is on coastal cities in low-income countries which are exposed to the greatest risks. ...d trends of the world's coastal cities and agglomerations. Ocean & Coastal Management 114; 11-20 </ref>. ]]
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• Species extinction
  * Reclamation of coastal wetlands (mangroves, salt marshes) for economic uses * [[Hard coastal protection structures|Coastal protection structures]]
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• US Army Corps of Engineers’ Coastal Programs
  ...], undertaking [[Flood (overflow)| flood control]] projects and regulating coastal restoration projects. ...d States. Its coastal management roles—e.g. navigation, erosion control, flooding and habitat restoration—fall under that part of the USACE mission focused
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• Mediterranean seagrass ecosystem
  ...s species. ''P. oceanica'' beds cover between 25,000 and 50,000 km2 of the coastal areas of the Mediterranean, corresponding to 25% of the sea bottom at depth ...s: an introduction to monitoring and management. EU project Monitoring and Management of European Seagrass Beds (Publ). 88 pp. ISBN: 87-89143-21-3.</ref>).
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• Oyster reef shore protection
  ...yster reefs at risk and recommendations for conservation, restoration, and management. Bioscience 61: 107–116</ref>. Overharvest is the mean reason for the dis The recent restoration of oyster reefs has been largely motivated by the coastal protection function they can perform, reducing the need for hard artificial
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• Cienaga Grande de Santa Marta
  '''THE COASTAL LAGOON SYSTEMS: THE CASE OF THE CIÉNAGA GRANDE DE SANTA MARTA, CARIBBEAN C ...rsität zu Kiel. Final paper for the module 3.1.2 Integrated Management of Coastal Zones
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• Bouches du Rhône
  <u>'''Main coastal issues'''</u> * Coastal and marine natural zones are becoming increasingly fragile;
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• Bouches du Rhone
  <u>'''Main coastal issues'''</u> * Coastal and marine natural zones are becoming increasingly fragile;
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• Groundwater management in low-lying coastal zones
  ...jor issue in many low-lying coastal areas. This article focuses on shallow coastal [[aquifer]]s connected to the sea. ...ce available for human use. More than 50% of world’s population lives in coastal areas and is largely dependent on fresh groundwater resources for domestic,
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• Overtopping resistant dikes
  ...per meter with a 1/10,000 probability was adequate. It turned out that the flooding mechanisms were not understood well enough and that the safety standard was ...rotection against flooding. These protection measures prevent an area from flooding thus providing safe conditions for economic and social activities. The dike
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• Dynamics, threats and management of dunes
  ...ref>AAGARD T., ORFORD J., and MURRAY A.S., 2007. Environmental controls on coastal dune formation; Skallingen Spit, Denmark. ''Geomorphology''. '''83''', 29-4 ...long‐term progressive alteration (Carter, 1988<ref>CARTER R.W.G., 1988. Coastal environments. An introduction to the physical, ecological and cultural syst
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• Shore protection vegetation
  ..., G.L. and Moore, C. 2019. The response of vegetated dunes to wave attack. Coastal Engineering 152, 103506 </ref>): ...ough to prevent breach of the dune belt and protect the hinterland against flooding (see [[Dune erosion]]). However, the presence of vegetation, the vegetation
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• Dynamics, threats and management of salt marshes
  ...odule=ref&refid=114118 www.vliz.be/imis]</ref>; Weerman ''et al.'', 2010). Coastal vegetation, like [[salt marsh]] vegetation, are ecosystem engineers in that ...Rapid Deterioration of a Salt Marsh in Venice Lagoon, Italy. ''Journal of Coastal Research''. '''14''', 583‐590.</ref>) .The estuaries of South‐East Engl
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• Dynamics, threats and management of biogenic reefs
  ...cal requirements and sensitivity characteristics for the conservation and management of marine SACs. Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough. (UK Mari ...). An overview of dynamic and sensitivity characteristics for conservation management of marine SACs. Scottish Association for Marine Science (UK Marine SACs Pro
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• Integrating Climate Change into the ICZM planning process - Establishment
  ...ommunication Office of the country. In addition, local authorities in many coastal zones are already planning to introduce measures to respond to some of the ...e defined boundaries, yet are part of an integrated area that includes the coastal zones.
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• Integrating Climate Change into the ICZM planning process - Analysis and Future
  ...Office or the Danish Climate centre to customise projections for specific coastal regions. This is likely to involve some outlays, which may be recoverable f ...old; margin-top:-3px; text-align: center">Box1: Impacts data Available for Coastal Zones in the UK</p>
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• Integrating Climate Change into the ICZM planning process - Setting the Vision
  ...ariations (e.g. present flood defences are inadequate to cope with present flooding). Action to correct this situation can possibly be justified even without r ...and as effective in protecting some coastal areas and sea walls; or demand management measures for water which can be less costly then building additional reserv
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• Cultural heritage
  == Cultural heritage in coastal zones== ...s connected to Cultural Heritage in the context of integrated coastal zone management
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• Modelling coastal hydrodynamics
  ...out to improve the representation of tides, waves, currents, and surge in coastal waters. <br> ...s. Phenomena, concepts and insights are presented briefly and modelling of coastal hydrodynamics using physical, numerical and composite models is described.
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• Ecological restoration of estuaries in North Western Europe
  ...aged as a whole <ref name="Eliot 2010">Elliott M. & Ducrotoy J.-P. (2010). Management plans for four North Sea estuaries : the Elbe, the Weser, the Humber and th ...S, Ducrotoy JP (2006) The concept of biotope in marine ecology and coastal management. Mar Pollut Bull 53: 20–29.</ref> . They seem to be similar in all estuar
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• Coastal lagoon
  ...remain open at least intermittently <ref name=K>Kjerfve, B. (Editor) 1994. Coastal Lagoon Processes. Elsevier Oceanographic Series 60</ref>. ...rs ago, leaving a mean sea level close to the present. The building of the coastal barriers was due to the interaction of river sediments (transported in larg
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• EU Maritime Policy: Green Paper 2006
  ...e transport, industry, offshore energy, fisheries, the marine environment, coastal regions and others are to be examined in a systematic manner in order to ex * An [[EM (Ecosystem based Management)|Ecosystem-based Management]]
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• Greek case studies: Geomorphological changes on the coastal area of the Inner Thermaikos Gulf over the past 150 years
  ...he article [[Greek case studies: Long term geomorphological changes in the coastal zone of the Thermaikos Gulf, Salonika Region, North Greece]]. From the middle of the 19th century to the early 20th century, the coastal system of the Gulf evolved naturally. A net marine sediment supply of some
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• Dune development
  ...d from Martinez and Psuty (2008)<ref>Martínez, M.L. and Psuty, N.P. 2008. Coastal Dunes: Ecology and conservation. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, Germa ...namics, threats and management of dunes]] provides an introduction to dune management; vegetation that promotes dune formation is described in [[Shore protection
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• Climate adaptation measures for the coastal zone
  ...climate adaptation in coastal cities is dealt with in a separate article [[Coastal cities and sea level rise]]. ...e will likely be areas that cannot be inhabited anymore due to the risk of flooding, leaving retreat as the only option. In other areas it may be possible to m
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• Compendium for Coast and Sea - creating a marine science-policy interface
  ...ny activities take place in the Belgian part of the North Sea or along its coastal zone. The Compendium for Coast and Sea aggregates and discloses the fragmen # Maritime and coastal heritage
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• Coral Molecular Biomarkers
  ...tidas & García 2004). Other non-point Hg sources include erosion, runoff, flooding, overuse of agrochemicals, and industrial waste (Guzmán & García 2002). R ...eriorate and threaten coral reefs. Major sources of organic pollutants are coastal development, increased run-offs, and toxic antifouling paints from ships (K
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• Morphology of estuaries
  ...tuarine morphodynamics is therefore a prerequisite for effective estuarine management. ...rom the landward limit of tidal facies at its head to the seaward limit of coastal facies at its mouth.''
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• Decision Support Systems for coastal risk assessment and management
  ...lly for the selection of the best combination of measures that can promote coastal safety and sustainability in a changing climate. ...mmunicate information to decision makers). The use of GIS for coastal zone management has expanded rapidly during the past decade (Wright and Bartlett, 2000; Bar
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• Extreme storms
  [[Image:PrinosFig1.3.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Fig. 1c. Wave overtopping a coastal breakwater, Hartlepool, UK. Courtesy of HR Wallingford.]] ...entOvertoppingGermany.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Fig. 1f. Wave overtopping of a coastal embankment in Germany caused by a storm wave event. (source: Leichtweiss-In
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• Siltation in harbors and fairways
  ...t gradient. Salinity-induced density currents play a role in estuaries and coastal systems with salinity gradients (see [[Estuarine circulation]]). Eysink (19 ...tuary, where salinity variations are more or less in phase with ebbing and flooding of the tide. In general, water level and tidal velocity are out of phase, a
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• Characteristics of sedimentary shores
  ...nding article) as well as coasts strongly modified by human interventions. Coastal morphological characteristics are related to geological setting, sediment t ...ment guidelines. DHI https://www.dhigroup.com/marine-water/ebook-shoreline-management-guidelines</ref>.
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• Pressures, impacts and policy responses in European coastal zones
  ...amework of analysis enables the transfer of knowledge and experience among coastal sites, with full consideration of site-specific conditions. ...studysites/index.htm Map]) is representative for the diversity of European coastal environments. They all host valuable ecosystems and most of them have a NAT
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• Threats to cold water coral reefs, sand banks and seagrass habitats in the North Sea by climate change effects
  Very sensitive to the processes taking place tend to be coastal areas, where at the same time reach variety of species can be observed. Tha ...s: coastal [[erosion]], landslides, river or estuary flooding, storm surge flooding and winds from ocean borne storm events (e.g. hurricanes, cyclones, and typ
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• Climate adaptation policies for the coastal zone
  ...climate adaptation in coastal cities is dealt with in a separate article [[Coastal cities and sea level rise]]. ...s, E. Voukouvalas, A. Dosio, and Feyen, L. 2017. Global changes of extreme coastal wave energy fluxes triggered by intensified teleconnection patterns,
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• Effect of Climate Change in the Baltic Sea Area
  ...contrast, nowadays, in much warmer climate conditions, the [[coastal area|coastal]] trapnet herring fishery in spawning grounds takes place a few months earl ...be important to consider multiple aspects of climate change, especially in coastal areas, if we are to estimate how [[Marine Biodiversity|marine biodiversity]
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• Nature-based shore protection
  ...ed coastal protection measure for beach and dune coasts worldwide. Several Coastal Wiki articles are devoted to this topic, see [[Shore nourishment]] and furt ...structures. Their analyses and syntheses demonstrated the following: ''a) coastal habitats–particularly coral reefs and salt-marshes–have significant pot
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• Marine data portals and tools
  ...nographic Data Center, manages one of the largest archives of atmospheric, coastal, geophysical, and oceanic research in the world. NCEI offers users access t ...SeaDataNet has developed an efficient distributed Pan-European Marine Data Management Infrastructure for managing these large and diverse data sets and provides
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• Dam break flow
  ...the storm surge level in the tidal inlets reached up to five meters. Rapid flooding killed almost two thousand people who were unable to flee in time to safe p ...l study of the flow structure at a swash tip propagating over a rough bed. Coastal Engineering 161, 103729
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• Classification of sandy coastlines
  ...undamental to the way in which the more dynamic habitats and ecosystems of coastal terrestrial areas and transitional waters develop. ...astal area, but also to provide guidelines for possible/feasible shoreline management measures.
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• River tides
  ...ds a major contribution to high water levels and to the associated risk of flooding. This is especially the case when the mean water level is raised by an exce ...mentation and erosion. It therefore influences the navigable depth and the management strategies (e.g. dredging) to maintain the fairway.
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• Tidal rivers
  Rivers that debouch into a coastal sea are subject to tidal motion. Even small tides can have a significant im ...ntrusion in the Mekong Delta: Results of field observations and integrated coastal-inland modelling. Earth Surf. Dynam. 9: 953–976</ref><ref>Dalrymple, R.,
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• Vulnerability and risk
  ...is article. The relationships are illustrated with examples related to the coastal zone. ...Vulnerability can be expressed as the estimated amount of damage that the coastal community will suffer as a consequence of certain hazards.}}
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