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Víctor-Manuel Lomelí-Quintero, Felícitas Calderón-Vega, César Mösso, Agustín Sánchez-Arcilla and Adrián-David García-Soto
Climate change is an increasingly critical issue impacting coasts and coast structures, leading to erosion, flooding, sea level rise, etc. These significantly impact not only the environment and society, but also the regional infrastructure and economy. ...
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Guangnian Xiao, Tian Wang, Xinqiang Chen and Lizhen Zhou
The role of the shipping industry in international logistics has been highlighted with the development of the global economy and the increase in international trade. Simultaneously, some of the environmental problems caused by shipping activities have gr...
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David Morgan, David Gunn, Andres Payo and Michael Raines
In an era of environmental change leading to rising sea levels and increased storminess, there is a need to quantify the volume of beach sediment on the coast of Britain in order to assess the vulnerability to erosion using cheap, easy-to-deploy and non-...
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Diana Arreola, Julian Hernandez, Valeria Vesco and Krishna R. Reddy
The Dredged Material Decision Tool (DMDT) was developed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) to allow project managers, stakeholders, and communities to quantify environmental, economic, and social considerations of using dredged ...
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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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Achilleas G. Samaras and Theophanis V. Karambas
In the present work, the impact of climate change on coastal flooding is investigated through a set of interoperable models developed by the authors, following a modular modelling approach and adapting the modelling sequence to two separate objectives wi...
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Amanda Sancho-García, Jorge Guillén, Vicente Gracia, Ana Carlota Rodríguez-Gómez and Belén Rubio-Nicolás
The evaluation of coastal damage caused by storms is not straightforward and different approaches can be applied. In this study, damage caused by extreme storms is evaluated at a regional scale based on news information published in regional newspapers. ...
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Aimar Lersundi-Kanpistegi, Ana M. Bernabeu, Daniel Rey and Rafael Díaz
The Ria de Vigo (NW Iberian Peninsula) is one of the most impacted coastal areas of Galicia, due to demographic and industrial pressure. One of the main consequences of this pressure is the need to extend the current wastewater treatment plant of the cit...
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Vincent Gruwez, Corrado Altomare, Tomohiro Suzuki, Maximilian Streicher, Lorenzo Cappietti, Andreas Kortenhaus and Peter Troch
In this paper, a Reynolds-averaged Navier?Stokes (RANS) equations solver, interFoam of OpenFOAM®, is validated for wave interactions with a dike, including a promenade and vertical wall, on a shallow foreshore. Such a coastal defence system is comprised ...
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Mario Maiolo, Riccardo Alvise Mel and Salvatore Sinopoli
Erosion processes threaten the economy, the environment and the ecosystem of coastal areas. In addition, human action can significantly affect the characteristics of the soil and the landscape of the shoreline. In this context, pursuing environmental sus...
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