Coastal Processes

Coastal Processes
Author: Tomoya Shibayama
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2009
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9812813950

Features concepts in coastal engineering and their application to coastal processes and disaster prevention works. This title describes basic concepts of coastal engineering, dealing mainly with wave-induced physical problems. It consists of the author's results of 30 years' scientific research on the progress of coastal sediment transport study.

Vast Expanses

Vast Expanses
Author: Helen M. Rozwadowski
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2018-10-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1789140293

Much of human experience can be distilled to saltwater: tears, sweat, and an enduring connection to the sea. In Vast Expanses, Helen M. Rozwadowski weaves a cultural, environmental, and geopolitical history of that relationship, a journey of tides and titanic forces reaching around the globe and across geological and evolutionary time. Our ancient connections with the sea have developed and multiplied through industrialization and globalization, a trajectory that runs counter to Western depictions of the ocean as a place remote from and immune to human influence. Rozwadowski argues that knowledge about the oceans—created through work and play, scientific investigation, and also through human ambitions for profiting from the sea—has played a central role in defining our relationship with this vast, trackless, and opaque place. It has helped us to exploit marine resources, control ocean space, extend imperial or national power, and attempt to refashion the sea into a more tractable arena for human activity. But while deepening knowledge of the ocean has animated and strengthened connections between people and the world’s seas, to understand this history we must address questions of how, by whom, and why knowledge of the ocean was created and used—and how we create and use this knowledge today. Only then can we can forge a healthier relationship with our future sea.

Introduction to Coastal Processes and Geomorphology

Introduction to Coastal Processes and Geomorphology
Author: Robin Davidson-Arnott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 541
Release: 2019-09-19
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1108424279

Grounded in current research, this second edition has been thoroughly updated, featuring new topics, global examples and online material. Written for students studying coastal geomorphology, this is the complete guide to the processes at work on our coastlines and the features we see in coastal systems across the world.

Headland-bay Beaches: Static Equilibrium Concept For Shoreline Management

Headland-bay Beaches: Static Equilibrium Concept For Shoreline Management
Author: Rong-chung John Hsu
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 811
Release: 2021-06-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 981122773X

Headland-bay beaches (HBBs) are ubiquitous in coastal environment. They exist around the world naturally or artificially as byproduct of engineering project. Though in various shapes, sizes and stability, a HBB in static equilibrium not only is a delight for visitors, but also offers hope for better beach protection, restoration, recreation, and shoreline management. With an empirical parabolic model now available, the stability of an existing HBB can be verified, the future bay shape downdrift of a harbor can be predefined, and a stable HBB can be designed.Although a plethora of books are available for coastal and ocean engineering and geomorphology, only a countable few have covered engineering applications of HBBs. On the contrary, this book with focus on the HBBs in static equilibrium aims to offer a comprehensive volume with knowledge and applications for coastal scientists, engineers, managers, students, and the general public interested in HBBs. Useful software tools for HBBs (MEPBAY, MeePaSoL, and SMC) are introduced in the book to aid in applications.The authors have set out to make this book the first unique publication on HBBs, by bringing together the old coastal geomorphic knowledge and new concepts for static bay beaches. This book also provides numerous examples using the static bay beach concept to assist coastal scientists and engineers on planning and pre-design of a stable HBB, and for experimentalists, consultants, and numerical modelers to alleviate the burden of comparing planning options and conducting laborious physical experiments on coastal sedimentation problems.

Climate Change, Coasts and Coastal Risk

Climate Change, Coasts and Coastal Risk
Author: Roshanka Ranasinghe
Publisher: MDPI
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2019-01-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3038974811

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Climate Change, Coasts and Coastal Risk" that was published in JMSE