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Carlos Coelho, Márcia Lima and Margarida Ferreira
Worldwide, artificial nourishments are being considered as one of the main coastal erosion mitigation measures. However, this solution is not permanent, since the natural removal of sediments that occurs after the sand deposition leads to the need of re-...
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Olympos Andreadis, Antonis Chatzipavlis, Thomas Hasiotis, Isavela Monioudi, Evangelia Manoutsoglou and Adonis Velegrakis
Island beaches, which form significant natural and economic resources, are under increasing erosion risk due to sea level rise. The present contribution proposes an integrated methodological framework for the evaluation of the socio-economic significance...
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Sompratana Ritphring, Pattrakorn Nidhinarangkoon, Keiko Udo and Hiroaki Shirakawa
In the 21st century, global sea level rise associated with climate change will affect beach areas, which provide a number of benefits that include benefits to the recreational sector of the economy. In Thailand, the adoption of structural measures in ord...
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Ana Margarida Ferreira and Carlos Coelho
Serious erosion problems related to significant negative sediments budgets in the coastal systems are referred worldwide. Artificial nourishments are a coastal erosion mitigation strategy that allow for a decrease in those negative budgets by adding sedi...
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Carlos Coelho, Pedro Narra, Bárbara Marinho and Márcia Lima
There are no sequential and integrated approaches that include the steps needed to perform an adequate management and planning of the coastal zones to mitigate coastal erosion problems and climate change effects. Important numerical model packs are avail...
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Waleed Hamza, Giuseppe Roberto Tomasicchio, Francesco Ligorio, Letizia Lusito and Antonio Francone
The present paper proposes a methodology to optimise the design of a beach protection intervention at Saadiyat Island, of the Abu Dhabi city in the United Arab Emirates. In particular, a nourishment performance index (NPI) has been introduced to select a...
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