Are Current UK Coastal Defences Good Enough for Tomorrow? An Assessment of Vulnerability to Coastal Erosion

Assessment of Green Measures as Coastal Defences Using Numerical Models

Climate change may reduce the performance and design life of “grey” coastal engineering interventions. Green solutions can be combined with present infrastructures providing extra flexibility to adapt our present beaches with affordable costs. This paper assesses the behaviour of a typology of green solutions (seagrass meadows) via numerical hydro-morphodynamic modelling for an erosive beach pr...

Probabilistic Design of Coastal Flood Defences in Vietnam Probabilistic Design of Coastal Flood Defences in Vietnam

Operationalization of Sar Polarized Data for Assessment of Coastal Erosion

This study introduces a new approach for operationalization of SAR polarized data on coastal erosion studies. Polarized TOPSAR and ERS-1 data are used for this purpose. ERS-1 data was acquired on the 8 August 1993 and polarized TOPSAR data was acquired on the 6 December 1996. A quasi-linear model and a new model based on the Canny algorithm were used to model shoreline changes. Digitized vector...

Erosion Risk Assessment of Active Coastal Cliffs in Temperate

The potentially negative consequences resulting from cliff recession are a matter of serious concern in many coastal areas worldwide. The assessment of these kind of processes has traditionally been performed by calculating average cliff recession rates and projecting them into the future, without taking into consideration the diverse factors affecting cliff dynamics and stability. In this work...

Spatial Approach to Medium-term Coastal Evolution in South Sicily (Italy): Implications for Coastal Erosion Management

MARTÍNEZ DEL POZO, J.Á. and ANFUSO, G., 2008. Spatial approach to medium-term coastal evolution in south Sicily (Italy): implications for coastal erosion management. Journal of Coastal Research, 24(1), 33–42. West Palm Beach (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Four sets of maps and aerial photographs have been integrated into a Geographic Information System (GIS) project to investigate coastal changes a...