CHRONIC BEACH EROSION INDUCED BY COASTAL STRUCTURES IN CHELEM, YUCATÁN

FINAL REPORT: Sargassum and Beach Erosion: Potential Costs and Benefits for Coastal Managers

Sargassum fluitans and natans, types of brown algae wash up on Galveston Island, Texas each year from May to August. Sargassum smells bad, hurts tourism and impairs sea turtle hatchings. Coastal managers are confronted with the difficult choice of cleaning Sargassum off the beach front or leaving it alone. The current beach management practice is to rake the algae with mechanical tractors and d...

Economic Valuation of Beach Erosion Control Programs

In this study, we employ a choice-based conjoint survey design to elicit individual choices of beach erosion control programs that can potentially cause multiple effects on beach environment. Two empirical choice models which incorporate individual heterogeneity, are used to analyze and compare the elicited individual choices of erosion control programs. Our results show that to a typical indiv...

Trends of Beach Erosion and Shoreline Protection in Rural Fiji

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Physical and Numerical Modeling of Beach Response to Permeable Low-Crested Coastal Structures

Detached breakwaters are often employed to protect beaches against erosion. When these structures are frequently overtopped, they are named Low-Crested Structures (LCS). These LCS’s offer a number of potential advantages over conventional structures, but their functional design is extremely difficult due to the large number of different processes contributing to the resulting water/sediment flu...

Macroinfauna of Wainui Beach, Gisborne - impact of beach protection structures