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• CONcepts and SCIENCE for coastal erosion management
  ...lling to serve as an operational structure for sustainable coastal erosion management. It is a research project under the EU’s 6th Framework Programme for Rese ...and test concepts, guidelines and tools for the sustainable management of erosion along the European coastline, based on best available scientific knowledge
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• Groynes
  ...] which aim to [[coastal protection|protect]] the shoreline from [[coastal erosion]]. A more detailed treatment of the effects of groynes is given in [[Groyne ...ases and part of the beach is washed away (see [[Natural causes of coastal erosion]]).
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• Port breakwaters and coastal erosion
  ...the impacts of breakwaters for three different types of ports on coastal [[erosion]]. The discussed ports are examples of ports in an "isolated environment", ...analysis of the effects of the port breakwaters on [[coast erosion|coastal erosion]] cannot be approached without replacing the structure in its whole environ
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• Detached shore parallel breakwaters
  This article describes a specific type of coastal defence. Detached shore parallel breakwaters are an example of an "artifici ==Background of erosion management==
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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 ...ty. Cutting 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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• Coastal Hydrodynamics And Transport Processes
  ...r processes, that come about from [[Tidal wave|waves]] transforming over a coastal profile and generating wave set up and [[Longshore current|longshore curren ...rs for the description of the sediment transport along a shoreline or in a coastal area are therefore the following:
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• Natural causes of coastal erosion
  ...ment guidelines. DHI https://www.dhigroup.com/marine-water/ebook-shoreline-management-guidelines</ref>. ==Temporal erosion and ongoing erosion==
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• Human causes of coastal erosion
  ...n and accretion. [[Definitions of coastal terms#Coastal erosion|Structural erosion or accretion]] can only happen in response to structural changes in the hyd ...ment guidelines. DHI https://www.dhigroup.com/marine-water/ebook-shoreline-management-guidelines</ref>.
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• Detached breakwaters
  ...rs and other special type breakwaters. Different aspects of breakwaters as coastal protection are discussed, as well as their impacts on shoreline evolution. ...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 ...[dune]]s as a result of a severe storm surge is also referred to as [[dune erosion]].
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• Cliff stabilisation
  Coastal cliffs can be unstable due to the combined effect of several factors, discu Coastal cliffs can be unstable due to the combined effect of several factors, such
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• Seawall
  ...ructure separating land and water areas. It is designed to prevent coastal erosion and other damage due to wave action and storm surge, such as flooding. Seaw ...stal profile. On the contrary, it will to a varying degree, accelerate the erosion. It is quite normal that the beach disappears in front of a seawall, and it
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• Revetment
  ...rotect a scarp, the foot of a cliff or a dune, a dike or a seawall against erosion by wave action, storm surge and currents. ...tments]]: article on the effectiveness of seawalls and revetments to solve coastal engineering problems.
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• Emergency Protection
  ...he emergency protection is installed in order to prevent further damage to coastal installations. "Unexpected" can have different causes as discussed in the f *Unexpected can be the development of ongoing erosion at locations where it has not been possible to provide funds for a proper a
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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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• Perched beaches
  ...arse material (sand, pebbles and even boulders) resulting from local cliff erosion. ...here the natural beach has become too narrow and low due to erosion of the coastal profile, see Fig. 1.
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• Coves - artificial formation and use
  ...]] can occur naturally (between to headlands) or artificially (between two coastal structures) and has specific functional characteristics. The [[cove]] conc ...ction system. Long sections of accumulated material upstream of protruding coastal structures cannot be used in this situation due to the oblique wave attack.
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• Beach drainage
  ...hanisms related to the uprush and backwash processes (see [[definitions of coastal terms]]) are relevant with respect to beach drainage. These mechanisms dire ...etion]] is expected. In case of erosive conditions a decrease of the beach erosion results. The above conclusion is confirmed by field and laboratory measurem
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• Currents
  The various types of currents in the sea, which may be important to coastal processes in one way or another, are described in the following. ==Currents in coastal seas==
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• Fluid mud
  ...erals with a smaller proportion of silt size minerals such as micas (see [[Coastal and marine sediments]]). The mineral composition is location dependent. Coh ...s. In: Estuarine cohesive sediment dynamics. Ed.: A.J.Mehta. Lecture notes coastal and estuarine studies 14, Springer-Verlag, Berlin: 427-445</ref>. High sedi
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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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• Setback area
  ...bited or significantly restricted, as buffer zone for storm tides, coastal erosion and adaptation to sea level rise. ...aribbean; A Study of Emerging Issues and Trends that Inform Guidelines for Coastal Planning and Development Inter-American Development Bank VPS/ESG TECHNICAL
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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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• Applicability of detached breakwaters
  ==Applicability for different coastal types== ...on to this local erosion, adjacent to the breakwaters, a little additional erosion occurs on either side of the protected section, due to the lack of sand fro
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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 ( ...ment guidelines. DHI https://www.dhigroup.com/marine-water/ebook-shoreline-management-guidelines</ref>.
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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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• DeCyDe for Sustainability Policy tool
  ...for the purpose of improving the sustainable development and management of coastal zones. ...reaching that goal or not. [https://www.msp-platform.eu/projects/measuring-coastal-sustainability-sustain-policy-tool SUSTAIN] set out to develop an indicator
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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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• Argus applications
  ...g system]]. For definitions of used terminology, see also [[definitions of coastal terms]]. ...coastal management and engineering involves the quantification of relevant coastal state information from video data. Sophisticated, operational video analysi
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• Dune erosion
  {{Definition|title=Dune erosion This article deals with dune erosion by storms and provides some simple rules from which retreat of the dune fro
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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
  ...ies, including migrating birds. Intertidal areas provide important natural coastal defences, protecting the low lying land surround estuaries from flooding. ...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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• Instruments for bed level detection
  ...0 of the [[Manual Sediment Transport Measurements in Rivers, Estuaries and Coastal Seas]]<ref>Rijn, L. C. van (1986). ''Manual sediment transport measurements ...of bathymetric maps for evaluation of navigationable depths, shoaling and erosion volumes, etc. Hence, accurate measuring instruments for bed level detection
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• Greek case studies: Long term geomorphological changes in the coastal zone of the Thermaikos Gulf, Salonika Region, North Greece
  ...aracterized by erosional trends. A number of both prehistoric and historic coastal settlements existed in the region and have been affected in many ways and v ...us river deltas were formed. The marine transgression resulted in changing erosion/deposition conditions both on terrestrial and marine environments.
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• EUROSION project
  ...ission. 40 pp ISBN 92-894-7496-3.</ref>) was a European study into coastal erosion at a European scale. Its outputs were: * A map-based assessment of European coasts exposure to coastal erosion;
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• The Integrated approach to Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)
  ===The Coastal Zone=== ...and and the ocean, coastal areas are affected by highly dynamic processes. Coastal spaces also support unique and especially fragile ecosystems, being areas o
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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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• Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)
  {{Definition|title=Integrated Coastal Zone Management ...ssential elements of integrated coastal zone management. Ocean and Coastal Management 21:81-108</ref>.
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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 ...d quantity, changes in annual and seasonal precipitation, desertification, erosion and flooding; and this will in turn affect birds, protected habitats and co
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• Floating breakwaters
  ...e=MC>McCartney, B. 1985. Floating breakwater design, J. of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering 111: 304-318</ref>: Floating breakwaters thus cannot be used as shoreline management structures at moderately exposed and exposed locations.
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• Coupled hydrodynamic - water quality - ecological modelling
  ...modelling'' presents the 'effect chain' approach for modelling marine and coastal water quality and ecology. ...rculation of coastal water based on tides and wind, and the discharge from coastal rivers. More specifically, the models calculate water velocities (speed and
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• Light revetments built-in into artificial dunes
  ==Erosion and soft shoreline protection== ...Maritime Offices (in Gdynia, Słupsk and Szczecin) has the Inspectorate of Coastal Protection, responsible for defence measures undertaken at individual shore
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• Contingent Valuation Method
  ...tudy focuses on the valuation of the economic effects of preventing soil [[erosion]]. The author suggested that one way to obtain information on the demand fo :[[Values of amenities in coastal zones]]
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• Eutrophication in coastal environments
  ...phication requires reduction of [[nutrient]] inputs and an ecosystem-based management strategy. The bio-geochemical cycles of nutrients are discussed in the arti ..., are affected by [[eutrophication]]. It is usually treated in science and management as a local or regional phenomenon, but [[eutrophication]] is actually, like
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