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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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