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• Sea defence
  |definition= Measures aiming at protecting low-lying coast and coastal hinterland against flooding caused by the combined effect of storm surge an ...e plants and animals occurring there.See also the article [[threats to the coastal zone]].
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• Rip current
  Boundary rips are related to the presence of hard topographic structures (headlands, groynes, jetties) that locally shield the beach from obliquely ...ffshore structures - natural seabed structures or manmade structures. Such structures produce a longshore modulation of wave energy in the breaker zone by shield
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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
  ...tion=The act of dealing – in a planned way – with actual and potential coastal erosion and its relation to planned or existing development activities on t #To ensure the development activities in the coastal area follow an overall land use plan and a general environmental policy
  38 KB (5,697 words) - 22:31, 2 July 2022
• Applicability of detached breakwaters
  ==Applicability for different coastal types== ...will eventually collapse if their sea sides are not strengthened, whereas coastal breakwaters constructed at a distance greater than say <math>x^* > 1.2</mat
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• Groynes as shore protection
  ...t of groynes depends on the type of coast, especially the [[Definitions of coastal terms#littoral drift|littoral drift]]. We distinguish four types of coast ( ...ight at the landward end is not lower than the top of the [[Definitions of coastal terms#Backshore|backshore]]. The height of the groyne further seawards can
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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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• Coastal pollution and impacts
  Coastal and estuarine [[ecosystem]]s have been, and still are, heavily influenced b ...m industry and agriculture, etc.) are considered. The sensitivity of the [[coastal zone]] to watershed impacts is examined in relation to land-derived polluti
  26 KB (3,841 words) - 16:44, 20 February 2024
• Economic valuation of goods and services of the UK coastal and marine ecosystem
  ...sible. Estimating the [[Total Economic Value|total economic value]] of the coastal ecosystem in monetary terms can prevent overexploitation and environmental ...he methods used for the valuation of goods and services provided by the UK coastal and marine ecosystem.
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• How to apply models
  ...s where proper analysis and modelling have formed the basis for successful coastal projects. ...d that the planning of a coastal development scheme includes the following coastal engineering disciplines:
  18 KB (2,697 words) - 11:29, 20 February 2024
• The Aarhus Convention
  ...regarding access to information and justice as well as to decision-making structures through public participation. ...and human health and safety, conditions of life, cultural sites and built structures, to the extent that these are or may be affected by the aforementioned elem
  7 KB (1,101 words) - 21:34, 11 July 2020
• Piers and trestles
  ...g place for vessels, as a recreation facility, as a measuring facility for coastal processes or as a part of [[Sand by-pass systems|sand by-pass facility]]. F ==Possible impact on coastal processes==
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• Sea dikes
  :[[Hard coastal protection structures]] :[[Ecological enhancement of coastal protection structures]]
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• Biotopes and classification systems
  ...en classification and mapping works of the littoral and upper sub-littoral coastal zone of the Great Britain and Ireland began. ...in space and time and lead to an explanation of macroscopic properties of coastal [[ecosystems]] (i.e. [[Nutrient conversion in the marine environment|nutrie
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• Water Framework Directive
  ...ramework for the protection of inland surface waters, transitional waters, coastal waters and groundwater which:</P> ...to the freshwater, but also covers the coastal and transitional waters. In coastal areas, the WFD is in force up to one nautical mile from the territorial bas
  12 KB (1,701 words) - 17:38, 3 September 2020
• Oil spill monitoring
  ...ft|300px|Fig. 1. Aerial image of an oil slick. Photo credit The Norwegian Coastal Administration/NOFO/Sundt Air.]] ...ral Network. Remote Sens. 13, 3203</ref>, [[Artificial Neural Networks and coastal applications|convolutional neural network]] <ref>Fan, Y., Rui, X.; Zhang, G
  12 KB (1,825 words) - 22:46, 9 February 2024
• 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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• Transport and dispersion of pollutants, nutrients, tracers in mixed nearshore water
  ...zones of [[pollutant]]s have been found along coastal regions far from the coastal source, and noticeable impacts have been detected even in deep sea regions. ...his is not the case for the widespread run-off of water-sand mixtures from coastal inlets, the latter being largely influenced by transport phenomena. <ref na
  19 KB (2,775 words) - 16:03, 7 October 2021
• 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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• Hydrodynamic numerical models of wave-structure interaction
  ...esulting from [[wave overtopping]] and wave penetration through the porous structures, wave diffraction, run-up and wave breaking. Focusing on overtopping, addit ...e last decades in the numerical modelling of wave interaction with coastal structures to overcome these limitations. Nonlinear Shallow Water (NSW), Boussinesq-ty
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