Concept ; Danemark ; Développement durable ; Gestion de l'environnement ; Littoral
of the coastal areas, considering nature and the environment.
This paper introduces the concept of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) in a definition with relevance for Denmark. Partly influenced by the Rio Conference the Danish government now deals with the concept of a sustainable development
Coastal dune development in cold-climate environments
Arctic Region ; Coastalenvironment ; Cold area ; Dune ; Eolian deflation ; Snow ; Subarctic zone ; Vegetation ; Wind
This paper reviews the occurence and morphology of coastal dunes developed in arctic and subarctic environments. The characteristic features of cold-climate coastal aeolian landforms are discussed, and some consideration is given
to the environmental conditions that may explain the different types of dunes found in these environments.
This paper describes coastal resilience as a measure of the extent to which a coast is able to respond to external pressures without losing actual or potential functions. Coastal resilience has morphological, ecological and socio-economic components
, each of which represents another aspect of the coastal system's adaptive capacity to pertubations. A recent study explores possibilities of enhancing coastal resilience in the Netherlands by allowing managed retreat in areas where it is environmentally
Synergy and co-operation : collaborative coastal research projects
Coastal dynamics ; Coastalenvironment ; Coastal protection ; Europe ; Model ; Project ; Research ; Sediment transport ; United Kingdom
This year's report will discuss some of 1997 large research projects : UK coastal research programmes with the Land-Ocean Interaction Study (LOIS) and the Coastal Area Modelling for Engineers in the Long Term (CAMELOT) project, and the European
This review highlights recent work in coastal geomorphology that challenges existing wisdom, breaks new ground or contributes in some way to wider principles. This review is organized in 5 parts : Non-cohesive and cohesive sediment dynamics; Beach
and dune morphodynamics; Late-Holocene and historical coastal evolutionary behaviour; High-resolution topographic data sets and a resurgence of morphometric analysis; A grand challenge : predicting mesoscale coastal behaviour. Coastal geomorphology
[b1] Coastal and Estuarine Research Unit, Dep. of Geography, Univ. College London, London, Royaume-Uni
Coastalenvironment ; Environment ; Global change ; Human impact ; Italy ; Man-environment relations ; Sardegna ; Sicilia ; Sustainable development ; Veneto
Action anthropique ; Changement global ; Développement durable ; Environnement ; Italie ; Littoral ; Relation homme-environnement ; Sardegna ; Sicilia ; Veneto
The volume focuses on the immediate interface between the coastal belt and the adjacent sea waters : four broad themes have been singled out among the aspects distinctive of the italian coastal interface : the physical environment, the anthropic
environment, the ecological environment and the economic environment. - (MR)
Questions of coastal protection and the human response to sea-level rise in Ireland and Britain
Coastalenvironment ; Coastal management ; Coastal protection ; Concept ; England ; Environment ; Global change ; Ireland ; Sea level ; United Kingdom
Aménagement du littoral ; Changement global ; Concept ; England ; Environnement ; Irlande ; Littoral ; Niveau marin ; Protection du littoral ; Royaume-Uni
This discussion aims at placing the problems and prospects for effective coastal management in Ireland, and more widely in the British Isles as a whole, in the context of the likely physical environmental changes that might be expected around our
coasts into the next century. In particular, the current approaches to coastal management and the lack of coherent national policies in this field are evaluated.
Dynamics and management of the coastal dunes of the Landes, Gascony, France
Coastal dunes. Geomorphology, ecology and management for conservation. Proceedings of the third European dune congress, Galway, Ireland, 17-21 June 1992
The study site in Northeast Greenland is located between 75°-73°30N. It lies in the high arctic climate zone with continuous permafrost. The AA. focuse on the relation between the various types of coastalenvironments and the location of Thule Inuit
settlements, especially the winter settlements. The geology and geomorphology of the coastalenvironments are presented and the dominant coastal and arctic processes with its seasonal variability are summarized. Thereafter, the suitability of various coastal
environments towards the settlement requirements is discussed and preferred locations for settlements are shown. The Thule culture abandoned Northeast Greenland about 1850 AD, and apart from settlements on basalt capes, most of the winter settlement sites
Aménagement du littoral ; Aménagement régional ; Environnement ; Gestion de l'environnement ; Grèce ; Géographie de l'Europe ; Littoral ; Protection de la nature
Ecological and geographical characteristics of the coastal zone of the Black Sea
Black Sea environment
Black Sea ; Coastalenvironment ; Ecology ; Geosystem ; Land use ; Rill wash;Runoff
The coastal zone of the Black Sea is viewed as marine terrestrial geosystem. This article largely treats the terrestrial part of the coastal zone of the Black Sea and provides information on the landscapes, the structure of land use
This paper will attempt to identify some underlying principles in coastal dune development and relate these to the opportunity to use mutiple dune features as a discriminatory tool in the general field of neotectonics investigations. Specifically
, through an understanding of the developmental history of coastal dunes, it may be possible to relate multiple episodes of dune development to conditions associated with vertical displacements of the coastal zone.
Most of the coastal lowlands are now so intensively used that a large proportion of the Japanese coast has been artificially modified. Therefore, coastal countermeasures against several kinds of natural and man-induced hazards are the serious
problems for Japanese. In this report, the A. will introduce some typical cases of countermeasures against coastal hazards in Japan.
This paper is a combined study on the medium and short-term evolution of the littoral between Chipiona and Rota (SW Spain). The analysis of coastal evolution over a period of 24 years was carried out using 6, well temporally spaced, photogrammetric
flights. In conclusion, this littoral recorded a balance between erosion and accretion at short-term scale and coastal retreat at medium-term.
Coastal resource management strategies sometimes fail when they do not integrate development impacts into the existing ad hoc approach to coastal management. This paper outlines a set of strategies coastal developers may take when confronted
by the need for change. Because a development and its coastal impact area constitute a connected system, the promotive strategy sees the development-impact area as interdependent. Such a strategy can turn impacts into an expansion of developer concern
by promoting coastal impacts as a new pathway to greater coastal conservation and management opportunities.
A macroscale analysis of coastal steepening around the coast of England and Wales
Coastalenvironment ; Coastal erosion ; Coastal management ; Coastal protection ; England and Wales ; Geographical information system ; Land utilisation ; Slope gradient ; United Kingdom
The aim of this paper is to build on existing background research into coastal steepening and advance it through GIS interrogation of the data collected in the recently completed Future coast project (Burgess et al. 2001). The primary aim
is to assess the extent to which coastal steepening has taken place around England and Wales.
Regional variation of coastal morphology in southwestern Australia : a synthesis
Australia ; Coastal dynamics ; Coastalenvironment ; Coastal erosion ; Coastal geomorphology ; Dune ; Lagoon ; Reef ; Spatial variation ; Western Australia
This paper contributes to the knowledge of Western Australian coastal systems through a review of recent investigations of large-scale accretionary landforms, foredune sequences and sandy beach morphology. It examines the association of particular
accretionary landforms with low energy environments along the south and west coasts.