“Facts About: Coastal Protection” describes all measures to protect coasts and nearby inhabitants against flooding, a need amplified by population growth and climate change.
Coastal protection spans interventions, structures and measures protecting coastal areas and their inhabitants against flooding, a need amplified by urbanisation and development to handle global population growth combined with the effects of climate change.
Coastal protection may be ensured through natural or man-made systems, or a combination of both. Available techniques which can be implemented fall into two categories: hard strategies and soft strategies.
“Facts About: Coastal Protection” answers essential questions such as:
What is coastal protection?
Why is coastal protection necessary?
How can a coast be protected?
What are hard coastal protection strategies?
What are sea dykes?
What are seawalls?
What are revetments?
What are groynes?
What are offshore breakwaters?
What are soft coastal protection strategies?
How does dune nourishment work?
How does supratidal beach nourishment work?
How does foreshore nourishment work?
How does mega-nourishment work?
How does morphological nourishment work?
Which are better, hard or soft coastal protection strategies?
What should be considered for coastal protection in the future?
