Pitfalls of Shoreline Stabilization: Selected Case Studies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789400793606)

Introduction

1. Pitfalls of Shoreline Stabilisation - Tweed River Mouth, Gold Coast, Australia

2. Adelaide beach management 1836-2025

3. Pitfalls of ebb shoal mining

4. Documenting beach loss in front of seawalls in Puerto Rico: pitfalls of engineering a small island-nation shore

5. Narratives of shoreline erosion and protection at Shishmaref, Alaska: the anecdotal and the analytical

6. Portballintrae Bay, Northern Ireland: 116 years of misplaced management

7. Beach Nourishment in the United States

8. Failed Coastal stabilization: examples from the KwaZulu-Natal Coast, South Africa

9. Presque Isle Breakwaters: successful failures?

10. Armoring on Eroding Coasts Leads to Beach Narrowing and Loss on Oahu, Hawaii

11. Compromising Reef Island Shoreline Dynamics: Legacies of the Engineering Paradigm in the Maldives

12. "Alternative" shoreline erosion control devices: a review.

13. Bad practice in erosion management: the Southern Sicily case study

14. The history of shoreline stabilization on the Spanish Costa del Sol

15. Coastal defense in NW Portugal: the improbable victory

16. Stabilizing the Forgotten Shore: Case study from the Delaware Bay

17. Shoreline stabilisation: lessons from South Wales

18. Coastal Stabilization Practice in France

Index