Coastal resilience has received significant attention for managing beach erosion issues. We introduced flexible artificial coral reef (ACR) structures to diminish coastal erosion, but planar installation effects should be considered evaluate the feasibility of coastline maintenance. In this study, we conducted a three-dimensional large-scale experiment investigate characteristics ACR, focusing ...

Shoreline stability is an important issue along much of the Mediterranean’s Coasts. European project MEDDOOC INTERREG BEACHMED-e focused on the strategic management of beach protection for the sustainable development of the Mediterranean coastal zone. In the framework of this project, a video system has been installed in Valras (Gulf of Lions / France) to monitor coastal evolutions and recent p...

The role of density-dependent processes in sea turtle populations remains largely unknown. This study quantified density-dependent and density-independent processes that underlie hatchling production in the green turtle nesting population at Tortuguero, Costa Rica, and estimated current mean hatchling output and potential carrying capacity of Tortuguero beach for hatchlings and nesting females....

Plastic debris in Earth's oceans presents a serious environmental issue because breakdown by chemical weathering and mechanical erosion is minimal at sea. Following deposition on beaches, plastic materials are exposed to UV radiation and physical processes controlled by wind, current, wave and tide action. Plastic particles from Kauai's beaches were sampled to determine relationships between co...

Sea-level changes through the Quaternary era have provided recurrent opportunities for the biosphere to significantly shape the coastal geomorphology of eastern Africa. Key agents in this shaping have been the calcium carbonate-fixing biota that have constructed the oceanfacing fringing reefs and produced the extensive backreef sediments that form the limestone platforms, cliffs and terraces th...

Sediment transport and, consequently, the beach profile changes in swash zone are important to overall sediment budget and evolution because hydrodynamic condition this is complex. One of morphodynamic difficulties estimating accretion erosion above mean water level. Although there have been considerable studies investigations into morphodynamic, numerical models for predicting rate limited. Th...

The overall objective of this paper is to identify coastal zone management problems within Mombasa Diani area. Other objectives included evaluating the effectiveness of the existing control measures and identifying response strategies for the affected areas. The results showed that coastal dunes and beach ridges, cliffed coasts and backshore areas could be developed but with proper set back lin...

Coastal dunes play an important role in coastal erosion risk management, where they act as a dynamic natural sea defence line. Formby coast is part of the Sefton Northwest England and one largest most rapidly evolving sand dune systems UK. Such require continuous comprehensive monitoring activity to understand their dynamics. In this research, we investigate use airborne LiDAR digital terrain m...

Threats to beaches have accelerated the coastal destruction. In recent decades, geotextile tubes were used around the world to prevent coastal erosion, to encourage beach nourishment, and to assist mangrove rehabilitation. However, the applications of geotextile tube in sandy and muddy coasts have different concerns as the geological settings are different. Applications of geotextile tubes in s...

Coastal erosion is anissuewhich affects beaches all over the world and that signifies enormous economic environmental losses. Classed as a slow phenomenon, evolution of coastline requires long-term analysis. In this study, old cartography aerial photographs from various dates have been used to study coastline. The information has processed with free software (QGIS) for calculation sediment tran...