Pitfalls of Shoreline Stabilization : Selected Case Studies - Cooper, J. Andrew G.; Pilkey, Orrin H.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012)
Introduction -- 1. Pitfalls of Shoreline Stabilisation - Tweed River Mouth, Gold Coast, Australia -- 2. Adelaide beach management 1836-2025 -- 3. Pitfalls of ebb shoal mining -- 4. Documenting beach loss in front of seawalls in Puerto Rico: pitfalls of engineering a small island-nation shore -- 5. Narratives of shoreline erosion and protection at Shishmaref, Alaska: the anecdotal and the analytical -- 6. Portballintrae Bay, Northern Ireland: 116 years of misplaced management -- 7. Beach Nourishment in the United States -- 8. Failed Coastal stabilization: examples from the KwaZulu-Natal Coast, South Africa -- 9. Presque Isle Breakwaters: successful failures? - 10. Armoring on Eroding Coasts Leads to Beach Narrowing and Loss on Oahu, Hawaii -- 11. Compromising Reef Island Shoreline Dynamics: Legacies of the Engineering Paradigm in the Maldives -- 12. "Alternative" shoreline erosion control devices: a review -- 13. Bad practice in erosion management: the Southern Sicily case study -- 14. The history of shoreline stabilization on the Spanish Costa del Sol -- 15. Coastal defense in NW Portugal: the improbable victory -- 16. Stabilizing the Forgotten Shore: Case study from the Delaware Bay -- 17. Shoreline stabilisation: lessons from South Wales -- 18. Coastal Stabilization Practice in France -- Index.
Keywords: Oceanography; Coasts; Geobiology; Physical geography; Earth sciences; Oceanography; Coastal Sciences; Biogeosciences; Physical Geography; Earth Sciences, general