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Coastal management

Index Coastal management

Coastal management is defence against flooding and erosion, and techniques that stop erosion to claim lands. [1]

145 relations: Air Ministry Experimental Station, Ammophila (plant), İztuzu Beach, Baltrum, Bay of Bengal, Bay of Meldorf, Büsum, Beach evolution, Beach nourishment, BL 12 inch Mk VIII naval gun, Borth, Breakwater (structure), Bryant B. Newcomb, Burchardi flood, Canterbury Bight, Caroline King-Okumu, Center for Marine Studies, Charles Gray Round, Chester and Holyhead Railway, Chief of Naval Staff (Pakistan), City of Clarence, Cley Marshes, Cliff stabilization, Coastal defence, Coastal development hazards, Coastal erosion, Coastal flood, Coastal hazards, Coastal management, Coastal sediment supply, Coral reef, Dagebüll, DEME, Deposition (geology), Dolos, Eccles on Sea, Ecological economics, Ecological values of mangroves, Eko Atlantic, Ellicott Dredges, Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015, Environmental impact design, Erosion control, Fischland, Flat coast, Flood, Freiston Shore, French Facility for Global Environment, Giannutri, Glacial erratics on and around Rügen, ..., Goleta Beach, Gotthilf Hagen, Hampton-on-Sea, Happisburgh, Hard infrastructure, Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Haubarg, Hemsby, Herne Bay, Kent, Holderness, Hudson's equation, Hurricane Faith, Integrated coastal zone management, Isle of Portland, Jannette B. Frandsen, Jaywick, Kaitiaki, Kalla kadal, Kewstoke, Killer Wave, KOLOS, Koog, Labworth Café, Land reclamation, Leybucht, Lincolnshire coast, List of academic fields, Longshore drift, Lower Manhattan, Mangrove tree distribution, Manhattan, Marcel Stive, Marine architecture, Minehead, National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management, New York (state), New York State Department of State, Nigehörn, Norderoog, Nordperd, Norfolk, North Sea, Overwash, Palm Beach, Queensland, Pier, Project Neptune (National Trust), Provincial Marine, Rantum, Remote sensing, Rotes Kliff, RV Denar 2, Salt marsh, Sand dune ecology, Sand dune stabilization, Sand engine, Sandown Castle, Kent, Schaabe, Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park, Sea Bright-Monmouth Beach Seawall, Seawall, Secretary of State of New York, Sefton Dunes, Shoalway, Shooting Pains, Skegness, Somerset Levels, Sospan Dau, Southport, Spring R. Rice, Stokes wave, Streckelsberg, Stuart Hughes (politician), Studland, Suffolk, Surfrider Foundation, Swash, Sylt, Tetrapod (structure), The Wash, Training (civil), Tsay Ting-kuei, Tweed River (New South Wales), Typhoon Utor (2006), University of Lagos, Upper Tribunal, War of 1812, Wave tank, West Bay, Dorset, Wetlands of Louisiana, Wichter Ee, Wind wave, Xbloc, 15 cm/50 41st Year Type, 1944 Great Atlantic hurricane, 2008 New Year Honours. Expand index (95 more) »

Air Ministry Experimental Station

AMES, short Air Ministry Experimental Station, was the name given to the British Air Ministry's radar development team at Bawdsey Manor in the immediate pre-World War II era.

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Ammophila (plant)

Ammophila (synonymous with Psamma P. Beauv.) is a genus of flowering plants consisting of two or three very similar species of grasses.

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İztuzu Beach

İztuzu Beach is a 4.5 km long beach near Dalyan, in the Ortaca district of the Province of Muğla in southwestern Turkey.

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Baltrum

Baltrum is a barrier island off the coast of East Frisia, in Germany, and is a municipality in the district of Aurich, Lower Saxony.

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Bay of Bengal

The Bay of Bengal (Bengali: বঙ্গোপসাগর) is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, bounded on the west and north by India and Bangladesh, and on the east by Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India).

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Bay of Meldorf

The Bay of Meldorf by Jürgen Utrata (2014).

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Büsum

Büsum is a fishing and tourist town in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

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Beach evolution

The shoreline is where the land meets the sea and it is continually changing.

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Beach nourishment

Beach nourishment (also referred to as beach renourishment, beach replenishment, or sand replenishment) describes a process by which sediment, usually sand, lost through longshore drift or erosion is replaced from other sources.

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BL 12 inch Mk VIII naval gun

The BL 12 inch naval gun Mark VIIIMark VIII.

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Borth

Borth (Y Borth), is a village 7 miles north of Aberystwyth in Ceredigion, Mid Wales, on the Ceredigion Coast Path.

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Breakwater (structure)

Breakwaters are structures constructed on coasts as part of coastal management or to protect an anchorage from the effects of both weather and longshore drift.

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Bryant B. Newcomb

Bryant Baxter Newcomb (August 22, 1867 – February 1, 1945) was an American Republican Party politician, who served as the Mayor of Long Branch, New Jersey and served as the Director of the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders.

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Burchardi flood

The Burchardi flood (also known as the second Grote Mandrenke) was a storm tide that struck the North Sea coast of North Frisia and Dithmarschen on the night between 11 and 12 October 1634.

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Canterbury Bight

Canterbury Bight is a 135 km stretch of coastline between Dashing Rocks (north Timaru) and the southern side of Banks Peninsula (Birdlings Flat) on the eastern side of the South Island, New Zealand.

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Caroline King-Okumu

Caroline King-Okumu (formerly Caroline King) is a senior researcher for the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).

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Center for Marine Studies

The Center for Marine Studies (Portuguese: Centro de Estudos do Mar, CEM) is a satellite campus and marine research station of the Federal University of Paraná (Portuguese: Universidade Federal do Paraná, UFPR), located in the municipality of Pontal do Paraná, Brazil.

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Charles Gray Round

Charles Gray Round (28 January 1797 – 1 December 1867) was a barrister and the Conservative member of parliament (MP) for North Essex 1837–47.

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Chester and Holyhead Railway

The Chester and Holyhead Railway was incorporated out of a proposal to link Holyhead, the traditional port for the Irish Mail, with London by way of the existing Chester and Crewe Railway, and what is now the West Coast Main Line.

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Chief of Naval Staff (Pakistan)

The Chief of the Naval Staff ((سربراہ پاک بحریہ (reporting name as CNS), is a military appointment and a Statutory office held by the four-star rank admiral in the Pakistan Navy, who is nominated and appointed by the Prime Minister of Pakistan and confirmed by the President of Pakistan. The Chief of Naval Staff is one of the senior-most appointments in the Pakistan military who is one of the senior members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee in a separate capacity, providing senior consultation to the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee to act as a principle military advisor to the Prime Minister of Pakistan and its civilian government in the line of defending and safeguarding the expedition, maritime and sealine borders of the nation. The Chief of Naval Staff exercise its responsibility of command and control of the operational, combatant, logistics, administration, and training commands within the Pakistan Navy, in a clear contrast to the U.S. Navy's Chief of Naval Operations (CNO). Due to its responsibility and importance, the Chief of Naval Staff plays a critical role in assessing the coastal defence and conducting reconnaissance to insure its strike capability against aggressive forces. In Principle, the appointment is constitutionally subjected for three years but extensions may be granted by the President upon recommendations and approvals from the Prime Minister. The Chief of Naval Staff is based on the Navy NHQ, and the current Chief of Naval Staff is Admiral Admiral Z.M. Abbasi serving as chief of naval staff, who took over the command as chief of naval staff on 6 October 2017.

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City of Clarence

Clarence City Council (or City of Clarence) is a local government body in Tasmania, and one of the five municipalities that constitutes the Greater Hobart Area.

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Cley Marshes

Cley Marshes is a nature reserve on the North Sea coast of England just outside the village of Cley next the Sea, Norfolk.

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Cliff stabilization

Cliff stabilization is a coastal management erosion control technique.

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Coastal defence

Coastal defence (Commonwealth) or Coastal defense (US) may refer to.

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Coastal development hazards

A coastal development hazard is something that affects the natural environment by man-made products.

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Coastal erosion

Coastal erosion is the wearing away of material from a coastal profile including the removal of beach, sand dunes, or sediment by wave action, tidal currents, wave currents, drainage or high winds (see also beach evolution).

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Coastal flood

Coastal flooding occurs when normally dry, low-lying land is flooded by seawater.

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Coastal hazards

Coastal Hazards are physical phenomena that expose a coastal area to risk of property damage, loss of life and environmental degradation.

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Coastal management

Coastal management is defence against flooding and erosion, and techniques that stop erosion to claim lands.

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Coastal sediment supply

Coastal sediment supply is the transport of sediment to the beach environment by both fluvial and aeolian transport.

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Coral reef

Coral reefs are diverse underwater ecosystems held together by calcium carbonate structures secreted by corals.

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Dagebüll

Dagebüll (Mooring North Frisian: Doogebel; Dagebøl) is a municipality located at the west coast of Schleswig-Holstein in the Nordfriesland district, Germany.

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DEME

Dredging, Environmental and Marine Engineering NV (in short DEME) is an international group of specialised companies in the field of capital and maintenance dredging, land reclamation, port infrastructure development, offshore related services for the oil & gas industry, farshore windfarm installation, environmental remediation a.o. The group is based in Zwijndrecht, Belgium, and has current operations on the five continents.

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Deposition (geology)

Deposition is the geological process in which sediments, soil and rocks are added to a landform or land mass.

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Dolos

A dolos (plural: dolosse) is a reinforced concrete block in a complex geometric shape weighing up to, used in great numbers as a form of coastal management to build revetments for protection against the erosive force of waves from a body of water.

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Eccles on Sea

Eccles-on-Sea (also called Eccles-by-the-Sea) is an ancient fishing village in north-east Norfolk, now virtually all swept into the North Sea.

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Ecological economics

Ecological economics (also called eco-economics, ecolonomy or bioeconomics of Georgescu-Roegen) is both a transdisciplinary and an interdisciplinary field of academic research addressing the interdependence and coevolution of human economies and natural ecosystems, both intertemporally and spatially.

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Ecological values of mangroves

Mangrove ecosystems represent natural capital capable of producing a wide range of goods and services for coastal environments and communities and society as a whole.

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Eko Atlantic

Eko Atlantic, officially Nigeria International Commerce city, also known as Eko Atlantic City, or the initials E.A.C. and E.A., is a planned city of Lagos State, Nigeria, being constructed on land reclaimed from the Atlantic Ocean.

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Ellicott Dredges

First established as the Ellicott Machine Company in 1885, Ellicott Dredges is one of the oldest manufacturers in the world that specializes in the design and building of dredges and dredge machinery.

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Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015

The Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015 is a bill that would make appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for FY2015.

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Environmental impact design

Environmental impact design (EID) is the design of development projects so as to achieve positive environmental objectives that benefit the environment and raise the stock of public goods.

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Erosion control

Erosion control is the practice of preventing or controlling wind or water erosion in agriculture, land development, coastal areas, river banks and construction.

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Fischland

Fischland (literally "fish land") is an isthmus on the southern Baltic Sea coast on the Bay of Mecklenburg in northeastern Germany.

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Flat coast

At a flat coast or flat shoreline, the land descends gradually into the sea.

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Flood

A flood is an overflow of water that submerges land that is usually dry.

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Freiston Shore

Freiston Shore is a settlement in the Borough of Boston, in Lincolnshire, England.

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French Facility for Global Environment

The French Facility for Global Environment (Fonds Français pour l'Environnement Mondial) (FFEM) is a French public bilateral fund whose mission is to protect the global environment in developing countries, in the name of the French cooperation and development policy.

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Giannutri

Giannutri is a small island in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the coast of Tuscany, Italy; it is the southernmost island of the Tuscan Archipelago and it is a frazione of the comune of Isola del Giglio in the Province of Grosseto.

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Glacial erratics on and around Rügen

This is a list of erratics on and around Rügen – the largest island off the Baltic coast of Germany.

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Goleta Beach

Goleta Beach is a region of coastline located near Goleta, California, just east of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) campus.

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Gotthilf Hagen

Gotthilf Heinrich Ludwig Hagen (March 3, 1797 – February 3, 1884) was a German civil engineer who made important contributions to fluid dynamics, hydraulic engineering and probability theory.

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Hampton-on-Sea

Hampton-on-Sea was a drowned and abandoned village in what is now the Hampton area of Herne Bay, Kent.

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Happisburgh

Happisburgh is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

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Hard infrastructure

Hard infrastructure is the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges etc., as opposed to the soft infrastructure of human capital and the institutions that cultivate infrastructure.

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Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies

The Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi is the only marine research institute dedicated solely to advancing the long-term sustainable use and conservation of the world’s ninth-largest body of water.

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Haubarg

A Haubarg, rarely also Hauberg, is the typical farmhouse of the Eiderstedt peninsula on the northwest coast of Germany and is a type of Gulf house.

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Hemsby

Hemsby is a village, seaside resort and civil parish in the county of Norfolk, England.

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Herne Bay, Kent

Herne Bay is a seaside town in Kent, South East England, with a population of 38,563.

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Holderness

Holderness is an area of the East Riding of Yorkshire, on the east coast of England.

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Hudson's equation

Hudson's equation, also known as Hudson's formula, is an equation used by coastal engineers to calculate the minimum size of riprap (rock armour blocks) required to provide satisfactory stability characteristics for rubble structures such as breakwaters under attack from storm wave conditions.

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Hurricane Faith

Hurricane Faith reached the northernmost latitude and had the longest track of any Atlantic tropical cyclone.

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Integrated coastal zone management

Integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) or Integrated coastal management (ICM) is a process for the management of the coast using an integrated approach, regarding all aspects of the coastal zone, including geographical and political boundaries, in an attempt to achieve sustainability This concept was born in 1992 during the Earth Summit of Rio de Janeiro.

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Isle of Portland

The Isle of Portland is a limestone tied island, long by wide, in the English Channel.

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Jannette B. Frandsen

Jannette Behrndtz Frandsen is a researcher and consultant who works in many fields including nearshore hydrodynamics, aeroelasticity, numerical analysis, computational fluid dynamics, coastal modeling, experimental fluid mechanics, sloshing, coastal erosion, climate change related problems, e.g., sea level rise, natural hazards (storms, tsunamis), wind energy, biomimetics, wave energy.

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Jaywick

Jaywick is a seaside village in the Tendring district of Essex, England, west of Clacton-on-Sea.

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Kaitiaki

Kaitiaki is a New Zealand term used for the Māori concept of guardianship, for the sky, the sea, and the land.

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Kalla kadal

Kallakadal is Malayalam word having literal meaning of 'sea thief'.

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Kewstoke

Kewstoke is a civil parish and village in Somerset, England, within the unitary authority of North Somerset, located next to the strip of coast called Sand Bay.

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Killer Wave

Killer Wave is a 2007 joint American-Canadian action-thriller TV mini-series, directed by Canadian filmmaker Bruce McDonald and written by Tedi Sarafian, George Malko, William Gray.

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KOLOS

KOLOS is a concrete interlocking armour unit intended to protect coastal structures like seawalls and breakwaters from the ocean waves.

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Koog

A koog (plural: köge) or groden is a type of polder found on the North Sea coast of Germany that is established by the construction of dykes enclosing the land which is then drained to form marshland.

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Labworth Café

The Labworth Café is a modernist International style reinforced concrete building overlooking the Thames estuary at Labworth beach on Canvey Island, Essex.

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Land reclamation

Land reclamation, usually known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a landfill), is the process of creating new land from ocean, riverbeds, or lake beds.

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Leybucht

The Leybucht is the second largest bay in East Frisia in northwest Germany after the Dollart.

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Lincolnshire coast

The coast of Lincolnshire runs for more than down the North Sea coast of eastern England, from the estuary of the Humber (which divides it from East Yorkshire) to the marshlands of the Wash, where it meets Norfolk.

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List of academic fields

The following outline is provided as an overview of an topical guide to academic disciplines: An academic discipline or field of study is known as a branch of knowledge.

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Longshore drift

Longshore drift is a geological process that consists of the transportation of sediments (clay, silt, sand and shingle) along a coast parallel to the shoreline, which is dependent on oblique incoming wind direction.

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Lower Manhattan

Lower Manhattan, also known as Downtown Manhattan or Downtown New York, is the southernmost part of Manhattan, the central borough for business, culture, and government in the City of New York, which itself originated at the southern tip of Manhattan Island in 1624, at a point which now constitutes the present-day Financial District.

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Mangrove tree distribution

Global mangrove distributions have fluctuated throughout human and geological history.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Marcel Stive

Marcel J.F. Stive (Amsterdam, February 25, 1951) is a Dutch professor of coastal engineering at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences of Delft University of Technology.

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Marine architecture

Marine architecture is the design of architectural and engineering structures which support coastal design, near-shore and off-shore or deep-water planning for many projects such as shipyards, ship transport, coastal management or other marine and/or hydroscape activities.

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Minehead

Minehead is a coastal town and civil parish in Somerset, England.

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National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management

The National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management (NCSCM), Chennai is a research institute under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), Government of India with a vision to manage our Indian coast in a sustainable manner.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York State Department of State

The New York State Department of State (NYSDOS) is the department of the New York state government under the leadership of the Secretary of State of New York.

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Nigehörn

Nigehörn is an uninhabited artificial island in the North Sea belonging to the German city of Hamburg.

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Norderoog

Norderoog (Halligen Frisian: Noorderuug, Danish: Nørreog) is one of the ten German halligen islands of the North Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea, which is part of the North Sea off the coast of Germany.

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Nordperd

The Nordperd (Perd.

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Norfolk

Norfolk is a county in East Anglia in England.

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North Sea

The North Sea (Mare Germanicum) is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean located between Great Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.

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Overwash

Overwash is the flow of water and sediment over a coastal dune or beach crest during storm events (or other sitations with high water).

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Palm Beach, Queensland

Palm Beach is a suburb on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, between Tallebudgera Creek and Currumbin Creek.

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Pier

Seaside pleasure pier in Brighton, England. The first seaside piers were built in England in the early 19th century. A pier is a raised structure in a body of water, typically supported by well-spaced piles or pillars.

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Project Neptune (National Trust)

Project Neptune, also known as Enterprise Neptune, is a long-term project of the National Trust to acquire or put under covenant a substantial part of the Welsh, English and Northern Irish coastline.

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Provincial Marine

Provincial Marine was a coastal protection service in charge of the waters in the Great Lakes, the St. Lawrence River and parts of Lake Champlain under British control.

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Rantum

Rantum (Sölring Frisian: Raantem) is a village and a former municipality on the island of Sylt in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

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Remote sensing

Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon without making physical contact with the object and thus in contrast to on-site observation.

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Rotes Kliff

The Rotes Kliff is a 52-metre high line of sea cliffs between the villages of Wenningstedt and Kampen on the German North Sea island of Sylt.

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RV Denar 2

The RV Denar 2 is a Turkish research and survey vessel owned by TOMA Maritime S.A. Istanbul, Turkey and operated 2E Maritime in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Salt marsh

A salt marsh or saltmarsh, also known as a coastal salt marsh or a tidal marsh, is a coastal ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and open saltwater or brackish water that is regularly flooded by the tides.

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Sand dune ecology

Sand dune ecology describes the biological and physico-chemical interactions that are a characteristic of sand dunes.

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Sand dune stabilization

Sand dunes are common features of shoreline and desert environments.

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Sand engine

The sand engine (also called Sand Motor) is an experiment in the management of dynamic coastline.

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Sandown Castle, Kent

Sandown Castle was an artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII in Sandown, Kent, between 1539 and 1540.

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Schaabe

The Schaabe is a bar, almost twelve kilometres long, on the German Baltic Sea island of Rügen.

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Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park

The Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park (Nationalpark Schleswig-Holsteinisches Wattenmeer) is a national park in the Schleswig-Holstein area of the German Wadden Sea.

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Sea Bright-Monmouth Beach Seawall

The Sea Bright-Monmouth Beach Seawall is a seawall located along the Jersey Shore in the Monmouth County, New Jersey towns of Sea Bright and Monmouth Beach.

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Seawall

A seawall (or sea wall) is a form of coastal defence constructed where the sea, and associated coastal processes, impact directly upon the landforms of the coast.

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Secretary of State of New York

The Secretary of State of New York is a cabinet officer in the government of the U.S. state of New York who leads the Department of State (NYSDOS).

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Sefton Dunes

The Sefton Dunes are located on the Sefton Coast in North-West England.

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Shoalway

The TSHD Shoalway is a trailing suction hopper dredger, owned and operated by Royal Boskalis Westminster, originally intended for the British market and built in 2010.

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Shooting Pains

Shooting Pains is the sixth and final episode of the first series of the British comedy series Dad's Army, which was originally transmitted on Wednesday 11 September 1968.

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Skegness

Skegness is a seaside town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, on the Lincolnshire coast of the North Sea, east of Lincoln.

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Somerset Levels

The Somerset Levels are a coastal plain and wetland area of Somerset, South West England, running south from the Mendips to the Blackdown Hills.

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Sospan Dau

The TSHD Sospan Dau is a Dutch trailing suction hopper dredger owned by Sosban BV.

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Southport

Southport is a large seaside town in Merseyside, England.

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Spring R. Rice

Major General Sir Spring Robert Rice (11 July 1858 – 11 August 1929) was a British Army general who served on the staff of the British Expeditionary Force during the First World War.

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Stokes wave

In fluid dynamics, a Stokes wave is a non-linear and periodic surface wave on an inviscid fluid layer of constant mean depth.

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Streckelsberg

TheStreckelsberg is an approximately 58 metre high coastal cliff on the island of Usedom in North Germany.

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Stuart Hughes (politician)

Stuart Hughes is an English politician representing voters at all three levels of local government in Devon, in the West of England.

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Studland

Studland is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Purbeck in the English county of Dorset.

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Suffolk

Suffolk is an East Anglian county of historic origin in England.

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Surfrider Foundation

The Surfrider Foundation USA is a U.S. 501(c)(3) grassroots non-profit environmental organization that works to protect and preserve the world's oceans, waves and beaches.

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Swash

Swash, or forewash in geography, is a turbulent layer of water that washes up on the beach after an incoming wave has broken.

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Sylt

Sylt (Sild; Söl'ring North Frisian: Söl) is an island in northern Germany, part of Nordfriesland district, Schleswig-Holstein, and well known for the distinctive shape of its shoreline.

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Tetrapod (structure)

Tetrapods are a type of structure in coastal engineering used to prevent erosion caused by weather and longshore drift, primarily to enforce coastal structures such as seawalls and breakwaters.

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The Wash

The Wash is a largely rectangular bay and estuary at the north-west corner of East Anglia on the East coast of England, where Norfolk meets Lincolnshire.

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Training (civil)

Training or entrance training refers to coastal structures built to constrain a river discharging across a littoral coast so that it discharges only where desired.

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Tsay Ting-kuei

Tsay Ting-kuei (born 24 March 1949) is a Taiwanese civil engineering professor, political activist, and former government official.

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Tweed River (New South Wales)

The Tweed River is a river situated in the Northern Rivers district of New South Wales, Australia.

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Typhoon Utor (2006)

Typhoon Utor, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Seniang, swept through the central Philippines in December 2006, exacerbating the damage left behind by previous Philippine typhoon strikes that year.

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University of Lagos

The University of Lagos – popularly known as Unilag – is a federal government research university in Lagos State, southwestern Nigeria.

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Upper Tribunal

The Upper Tribunal is part of the administrative justice system of the United Kingdom.

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War of 1812

The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom, and their respective allies from June 1812 to February 1815.

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Wave tank

A wave tank is a laboratory setup for observing the behavior of surface waves.

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West Bay, Dorset

West Bay, also known as Bridport Harbour, is a small harbour settlement and resort on the English Channel coast in Dorset, England, sited at the mouth of the River Brit approximately south of Bridport.

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Wetlands of Louisiana

The wetlands of Louisiana are water-saturated coastal and swamp regions of southern Louisiana.

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Wichter Ee

The Wichter Ee is a gat between the East Frisian Islands of Norderney (to the west) and Baltrum (to the east).

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Wind wave

In fluid dynamics, wind waves, or wind-generated waves, are surface waves that occur on the free surface of bodies of water (like oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, canals, puddles or ponds).

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Xbloc

An Xbloc is an interlocking concrete block (or "armour unit") designed to protect shores, harbour walls, seawalls, breakwaters and other coastal structures from the direct impact of incoming waves.

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15 cm/50 41st Year Type

The was a naval gun used by the Imperial Japanese Navy before and during World War II.

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1944 Great Atlantic hurricane

The 1944 Great Atlantic hurricane was a destructive and powerful tropical cyclone that swept across a large portion of the United States East Coast in September 1944.

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2008 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 2008 for the Commonwealth realms were announced on 29 December 2007, to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 2008.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal_management

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