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• Wave energy converters in coastal structures
  [[Image:Construction_of_a_coastal_structure.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Fig 1: A coastal structure under construction.]] ...e designed to withstand. This will be the case, in particular, for all the structures built in shallow water where the depth imposes the maximal amplitude becaus
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• Hard coastal protection structures
  ...sk reduction of coastal erosion in the People's Republic of China. Ocean & Coastal Management 103: 134-145</ref> ...wick and Fleming (2018)<ref> Reeve, D., Chadwick, A. and Fleming, C. 2018. Coastal Engineering: Processes, Theory and Design, Practice 3rd Edition. CRC press,
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• Ecological enhancement of coastal protection structures
  ...n of ecosystems that reinforce the shore protection function of artificial structures. Examples discussed in this article are ecological enhancement with reef bu ...coastal stretches around the world have been armored with hard protection structures. For example, 14% of the United States coastline (Popkin, 2015<ref>Popkin,
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• Groynes
  ...uctures]] which aim to [[coastal protection|protect]] the shoreline from [[coastal erosion]]. A more detailed treatment of the effects of groynes is given in ...es decreases and part of the beach is washed away (see [[Natural causes of coastal erosion]]).
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• Port breakwaters and coastal erosion
  ...describes the impacts of breakwaters for three different types of ports on coastal [[erosion]]. The discussed ports are examples of ports in an "isolated envi The analysis of the effects of the port breakwaters on [[coast erosion|coastal erosion]] cannot be approached without replacing the structure in its whole
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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 ...intenance and lifetime service as well as the rebuilding or dismantling of structures when their lifetime is over.
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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
  ...Erosion due to human interventions is described in e.g. [[Human causes of coastal erosion]]. Most of the content of this article is drawn from Mangor et al. ...ical concept, it can be very useful in practice for analysing and managing coastal erosion processes.
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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 ...nds of human interventions may affect coastal erosion. [[Natural causes of coastal erosion]] are discussed in another article. Most of the content of this art
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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. *Distance from shoreline and location relative to the [[Definitions of coastal terms#Breaker zone or Surf zone|surf zone]]
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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 ...wave and storm surge attack and at the same time it preserves the natural coastal landscape, if performed moderately. Dune stabilisation requires a planned a
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• Seawall
  ...tion and storm surge, such as flooding. Seawalls are normally very massive structures because they are designed to resist the full force of waves and storm surge [[Image:Seawall structures.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Fig. 1. Examples of seawall structures.]]
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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 ...despite the fact that it could have been foreseen if proper monitoring and coastal investigations had been practised
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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
  ...here the natural beach has become too narrow and low due to erosion of the coastal profile, see Fig. 1. Restoring an equilibrium [[shoreface profile|coastal profile]] requires sand fill (artificial nourishment) of the subtidal beach
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• Coves - artificial formation and use
  ...ccur naturally (between to headlands) or artificially (between two coastal structures) and has specific functional characteristics. The [[cove]] concept is simi ...artificial pocket beaches will begin to form by themselves as soon as the structures have been built, however it is recommended to include initial beach fill in
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• Waves
  The short waves are the single most important parameter in coastal morphology. Wave conditions vary considerably from site to site, depending ...so referred to as short-crested. Wind waves tend to be destructive for the coastal profile because they generate an offshore (as opposed to onshore) movement
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• Wave transformation
  ...rs in [[deep water]] when the waves are too steep. If the waves meet major structures or abrupt changes in the coastline, they will be transformed by diffraction ...n is the process by which the waves propagate into the lee zone behind the structures by energy transmittance laterally along the wave crests.
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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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• Beach park
  ...on= A scheme which consists of new artificial beaches, stabilising coastal structures and filling/reclamation, which in combination provides new recreational fac
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• Closure depth
  ...., Larson, M. and Wise, R. A. 1998. Depth of Closure in Beach-fill Design. Coastal Engineering Technical Note CETN II-40, 3/98, U.S. Army Engineer Waterways E ...|right|thumb|450px|caption |Fig. 1. Schematic representation of the active coastal zone for a dune coast and cross-shore sand redistribution for alternating s
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• Coast protection
  ...g the [[coast]] from [[erosion]] and [[coastline]] retreat, from damage to coastal settlements and from flooding of the hinterland. ...y, J.P. (2004) 'Coastal squeeze' - an historical perspective. ''Journal of Coastal Conservation'', '''10/1-2''', 129-138.</ref>). See also the article [[Natur
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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
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• 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
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• 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:
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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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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• 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
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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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• 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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• Nutrient conversion in the marine environment
  ...ndwater discharge insignificant for the world’s oceans but important for coastal ecosystems. Nature Commun. 11, 1260</ref>. Atmospheric deposition contribut ...ation. Front. Mar. Sci. 5: 108</ref>. Nitrogen fixation also occurs in the coastal zone, especially in benthic ecosystems, adding about 15 Tg N / yr to the gl
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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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• Environmental risk assessment of marine activities
  ...ds relevant to risk sources related to marine activities and to marine and coastal [[ecosystems]] as potential receptor. ...ment being replaced by modern items, degradation of existing equipment and structures, changes in management systems, changes in operating conditions, etc. These
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• Case study risk analysis of marine activities in the Belgian part of the North Sea
  ...stuary and the Zeebrugge port (Scheur). The remaining routes are sailed by coastal vessels and ferries. The BPNS includes one anchorage area, located at the W * powered ship collisions with fixed marine structures such as platforms or wind turbines
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• Dune erosion
  ...ology 276: 100–104</ref>, see also the article [[Dune development]]. The coastal dune belt in many cases protects low-lying hinterland from flooding by the ...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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• Reduction of uncertainties through Data Model Integration (DMI)
  ...on-linear models. Recent examples of applications in surface hydrology and coastal hydrodynamics are given by El Serafy et al., 2005<ref>El Serafy, G.Y., Gerr ...n of water loads in drainage systems, forecasting and control of hydraulic structures such as sluices, weirs or barriers, can be mentioned as relevant applicatio
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• Submarine groundwater discharge
  ...rlying processes and the importance of submarine groundwater discharge for coastal zone management. SGD is the discharge of groundwater going directly into t ...fresh groundwater and seawater, see [[Groundwater management in low-lying coastal zones]]. The processes are shown schematically in Figures 1a and 1b.
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• Guidelines for selection of sediment transport samplers
  ...1 of the [[Manual Sediment Transport Measurements in Rivers, Estuaries and Coastal Seas]] <ref>Rijn, L. C. van (1986). ''Manual sediment transport measurement #*rivers, estuaries, coastal seas;
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• Measuring instruments for coasts
  ...4 of the [[Manual Sediment Transport Measurements in Rivers, Estuaries and Coastal Seas]]<ref>Rijn, L. C. van (1986). ''Manual sediment transport measurements ...available for measuring suspended sediment concentrations and transport in coastal environments are: mechanical traps (streamer traps in shallow surf zone <1
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• Introduction, problems and approaches in sediment transport measurements
  ...r of the [[Manual Sediment Transport Measurements in Rivers, Estuaries and Coastal Seas]]<ref>Rijn, L. C. van (1986). ''Manual sediment transport measurements ==Sedimentation and erosion problems in rivers, estuaries and coastal seas==
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