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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>:
  38 KB (5,697 words) - 22:31, 2 July 2022
• 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.
  3 KB (532 words) - 15:10, 22 July 2019
• 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
  27 KB (4,061 words) - 18:28, 21 February 2024
• 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?
  11 KB (1,658 words) - 18:45, 3 March 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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• 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
  41 KB (6,267 words) - 13:40, 21 April 2024
• 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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