Land reclamation has played a significant role in the urban development process in coastal areas in many countries. Over the last 20 years, land reclamation has gained much popularity especially along coastal areas of the south and east China due to rapid development of industry and urbanization. While reclamation provides valuable land, it also creates various engineering, environmental and ec...

Tidal inlets are part of the coastal sediment-sharing system, and an inlet will modify the nearshore and estuary morphology, as well as the up-drift and down-drift beaches. Morphologic response to an inlet varies over several time and spatial scales. This chapter discusses inlet morphology and related functional design considerations that must balance navigation and shoreprotection requirements...

This paper proposes a framework termed Probabilistic Sea-Level Rise Hazard Analysis (PSLRHA), to integrate the sea-level rise knowledge of current climate change scientific communities for informed engineering and policy decisions that affect coastal infrastructure, populations, and ecosystems. PSLRHA combines probabilities of all emission scenarios with predictions of the resulting sea-level r...

Australian Rivers Institute – Coast and Estuaries, and School of Environment, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Qld 4222, Australia, School of Science and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, Qld 4558, Australia, Biogeography Branch, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA, Marine Institute, Plymouth University, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK, ...

1 Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, 2 School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering and the UWA Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia, 3 Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, 4 National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, UK, 5 ABP Marine...

The role of sea-salt emissions and heterogeneous chemistry in the air quality of polluted coastal areas E. Athanasopoulou, M. Tombrou, S. N. Pandis, and A. G. Russell National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Physics, Dep. of Environmental Physics and Meteorology, Athens, Greece Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras, 26500 Patra, Greece School of Civil and En...

Xiang Shen 1,2,3, Qingquan Li 1,*, Guofeng Wu 1 and Jiasong Zhu 1 1 Key Laboratory for Geo-Environmental Monitoring of Coastal Zone of the National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geo-Information & Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Spatial-temporal Smart Sensing and Services, Shenzhen University, Nanhai Road 3688, Shenzhen 518060, China; [email protected] (X.S.); [email protected] (G.W.); z...

In the context of global climate change, flooding and sea level rise is increasingly threatening coastal urban areas, in which large population is continuously concentrated. Dutch experiences in urban water system management provide high reference value for sustainable coastal urban development projects. Preliminary studies shows the urban water system in Almere, a typical Dutch polder city, ha...