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Pattrakorn Nidhinarangkoon, Sompratana Ritphring, Kanon Kino and Taikan Oki
Phuket, the study area of this work with 33 sandy beaches, provides about 15% of the nation?s gross domestic product from the tourism industry. Many factors cause shoreline changes affecting beach areas, such as seasonal erosion and rising sea levels. In...
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Apostolia Komi, Alexandros Petropoulos, Niki Evelpidou, Serafeim Poulos and Vasilios Kapsimalis
The coastal zone may be considered as the location where the marine and land environments interact dynamically and coexist with human societies. Globally, natural and human systems are being severely threatened by the sea level rise related to climate ch...
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Khairul Nizam Abdul Maulud, Siti Norsakinah Selamat, Fazly Amri Mohd, Noorashikin Md Noor, Wan Shafrina Wan Mohd Jaafar, Mohd Khairul Amri Kamarudin, Effi Helmy Ariffin, Nor Aizam Adnan and Anizawati Ahmad
Coastal areas are fragile and changeable due to natural and anthropogenic factors. The resulting changes could have a significant impact on the coastal community. Thus, monitoring shoreline changes for environmental protection in the Selangor coastal are...
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Giandomenico Foti, Giuseppe Barbaro, Giuseppina Chiara Barillà and Ferdinando Frega
During the second half of the last century, considerable anthropization processes were observed throughout most of the Italian territory. These processes have altered the equilibrium conditions of several river and coastal ecosystems, causing the destruc...
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Vitalijus Kondrat, Ilona ?akurova, Egle Baltranaite and Loreta Kelp?aite-Rimkiene
Port of Klaipeda is situated in a complex hydrological system, between the Curonian Lagoon and the Baltic Sea, at the Klaipeda strait in the South-Eastern part of the Baltic Sea. It has almost 300 m of jetties separating the Curonian Spit and the mainlan...
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Nguyen Quang Tuan, Hoang Cong Tin, Luong Quang Doc and Tran Anh Tuan
Cua Dai is one of the major estuarine areas in Central Vietnam that plays a significant role in local maritime transport, fisheries, and tourism activities. This paper presents a study that monitored the shoreline dynamics of the Cua Dai estuary over a p...
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Kwong Fai A. Lo and Chethika W. D. Gunasiri
Located in the west coast of Taiwan, Yunlin County is considered as one of the most industrialized counties. The impact of land use on the coastal zone is significantly high. The main objective of this study is to analyze the impact of coastal land use c...
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Changbin Lim, Jooyong Lee and Jung Lyul Lee
Among the various causes of coastal erosion, the installation of offshore breakwaters is considered the main cause that influences the most serious changes in shorelines. However, without a proper means for predicting such terrain changes, countries and ...
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S. Panalaran, T. A. Tarigan, N. Simarmata
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Shoreline change is a natural process caused by the transported sediment generated by nearshore current to preserve the mass rates. Shoreline change can be a shoreline loss called abrasion as well as shoreline expansion due to sedimentation called accret...
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Giandomenico Foti, Giuseppe Barbaro, Giuseppina Chiara Barillà and Pierluigi Mancuso
An important process that began in many Mediterranean countries in the last century, after the end of the Second World War, concerns the displacement of a large part of the population from inland to coastal areas, expanding many existing cities and build...
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Hongzhen Tian, Kai Xu, Joaquim I. Goes, Qinping Liu, Helga do Rosario Gomes and Mengmeng Yang
Shoreline changes are of great importance for evaluating the interaction between humans and ecosystems in coastal areas. They serve as a useful metric for assessing the ecological costs of socioeconomic developmental activities along the coast. In this p...
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Antonio Zanutta, Alessandro Lambertini and Luca Vittuari
The aim of this work is to evaluate UAV photogrammetric and GNSS techniques to investigate coastal zone morphological changes due to both natural and anthropogenic factors. Monitoring morphological beach change and coastline evolution trends is necessary...
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Edward J. Anthony, Manon Besset, Florin Zainescu and François Sabatier
Areal changes over delta surfaces determined by land and water ratios are a promising tool for identifying spatial and temporal changes in deltas that may reveal subsidence and shoreline erosion. Such changes can also provide the basis for more detailed ...
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Alejandro Gómez-Pazo, Augusto Pérez-Alberti and Xose Lois Otero Pérez
Sedimentary coastal areas change rapidly and are economically and environmentally important. This research focuses on determining the extent to which natural dynamics and human activity have contributed to visible changes on Rodas, Cíes Islands in southw...
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Jung-Eun Oh, Yeon S. Chang, Weon Mu Jeong, Ki Hyun Kim and Kyong Ho Ryu
Video monitoring systems (VMS) have been used for beach status observation but are not effective for examining detailed beach processes as they only measure changes to the shoreline and backshore. Here, we extracted longshore sediment transport (LST) fro...
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Jessica D. DeWitt and Francis X. Ashland
South Manitou Island, part of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in northern Lake Michigan, is a post-glacial lacustrine landscape with substantial geomorphic changes including landslides, shoreline and bluff retreat, and sand dune movement. These ch...
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Julian O?Grady, Alexander Babanin and Kathleen McInnes
Modelling investigations into the local changes in the shoreline resulting from enhanced atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations and global climate change are important for supporting the planning of coastal mitigation measures. Analysis of Global Clim...
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Alireza Taravat, Masih Rajaei, Iraj Emadodin, Hamidreza Hasheminejad, Rahman Mousavian, Ehsan Biniyaz
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Lake Urmia, the second largest saline Lake on earth and a highly endangered ecosystem, is on the brink of a serious environmental disaster similar to the catastrophic death of the Aral Sea. Progressive drying has been observed during the last decade, cau...
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Alireza Taravat, Masih Rajaei, Iraj Emadodin, Hamidreza Hasheminejad, Rahman Mousavian and Ehsan Biniyaz
Lake Urmia, the second largest saline Lake on earth and a highly endangered ecosystem, is on the brink of a serious environmental disaster similar to the catastrophic death of the Aral Sea. Progressive drying has been observed during the last decade, cau...
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Rui Yuan, Ruiyang Xu, Hezhenjia Zhang, Yutao Hua, Hongsheng Zhang, Xiaojing Zhong and Shenliang Chen
This study presents an in-depth analysis of the dynamic beach landscapes of Hainan Island, which is located at the southernmost tip of China. Home to over a hundred natural and predominantly sandy beaches, Hainan Island confronts significant challenges p...
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