There are over 60,000 miles (100,000 km) of coastal highways in the United States (US) that occasionally exposed to waves and water levels. Wise stewardship calls for integration engineering principles practices planning design these roads bridges make them more resilient. A new, 3rd, edition primary guidance document Hydraulic Engineering Circular No. 25 (HEC-25), entitled “Highways Coastal En...

FOREWORD On June 17, 1998 the Bank's Board of Directors favorably considered a new Strategy for Coastal and Marine Resources Management. The Strategy provides new directions for Bank activities in coastal and marine areas in Latin America and the Caribbean, a region endowed with a unique and valuable maritime heritage. The strategy calls for a renewed, more integrated approach to investments an...

In recent years, modeling has emerged as an invaluable tool for understanding the functioning of coastal lagoons. Modelling the environmental characteristics of the coastal area near the Bay of Bengal, India has received increasing attention from researchers in the past years. This interest has stimulated a scientific investigation of lagoon ecosystems, which have been studied from the physical...

Submarine outfalls are proposed as an efficient alternative for the final destination of wastewater in densely populated coastal areas, due to the high dispersal capacity and the clearance of organic matter in the marine environment, and because they require small areas for implementation. This paper evaluates the probability of unsuitable bathing conditions in coastal areas nearby to the Ipane...

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...