Abstract “Sun, Sea and Sand” tourism is one of the fastest increasing activities in Colombia.
The coast, specifically the Caribbean coast, represents the favourite destination for national …

Coastal changes on sandy shorelines are continuous and occur at diverse spatial and
temporal scales. Gaining knowledge on beach change processes increases our capability to …

Mapping of coastal inundation hazard related to storms requires the combination of multiple
sources of information regarding meteorological, morphological and dynamic characteristics …

Based on the observational data of 6 storms and 8 different beaches on the coasts of
southern China, the paper is concerned with the characteristics of storm-effects on beaches …

In the Bay of Cádiz (SW Spain) an Upper Pleistocene beach deposit (31.5 ka BP) has been
recognised at about 1–3m above msl The deposit is affected by a set of joints and fractures …

In this study critical thresholds are defined for storm impacts along the Spanish coast of the
Gulf of Cádiz. The thresholds correspond to the minimum wave and tide conditions …

The present paper deals with the historical evolution of the northern Bay of Cádiz (SW
Spain) between the last eustatic maximum (6.5 ka BP) and the present day, by means of a …

Human occupation of and alteration of the world's coast has transformed large stretches of it
into Coupled Human-Natural Systems (CHANS) in which humans both influence and are …

In the context of increased coastal hazards due to variability in storminess patterns, the
danger of coastal damages and/or morphological changes is related to the sum of sea level …

Beach classification models are widely used in the literature to describe beach states in
response to environmental conditions. These models were essentially developed for sandy …