Beach nourishment—the addition of sand to increase the width or sand volume of the beach—
is a widespread coastal management technique to counteract coastal erosion. Globally …

The Dutch coast is one of the most heavily nourished coasts globally. An average of 12 mln.
m 3 is annually added to the coastline of only 432 km for dynamic coastline conservation …

We present a shoreline change model for coastal hazard assessment and management
planning. The model, CoSMoS‐COAST (Coastal One‐line Assimilated Simulation Tool), is a …

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A large proportion of the coastline of the UK and Ireland is currently
suffering from erosion (17% in the UK; 19.9% in Ireland) and of the 3700 km coastline of …

With large-scale human interventions and climate change unfolding as they are now, coastal
changes at decadal timescales are not limited to incremental modifications of systems that …

The Wadden Sea is a unique coastal wetland containing an uninterrupted stretch of tidal
flats that span a distance of nearly 500km along the North Sea coast from the Netherlands to …

Coastal erosion outpaces land generation along many of the world's deltas and a significant
percentage of shorelines, and human-caused alterations to coastal sediment budgets can …

Depth of closure is a fundamental concept used to define the seaward extent of a
morphodynamically active shoreface at a particular temporal scale. The estimation of this …

Coastline retreat is an evident sign of the vulnerability of low-lying sandy coasts to erosion
and sea level rise (SLR). Sand nourishments are commonly used to maintain foreshores …

The definition of the shoreline position from satellite imagery is of great interest among
coastal monitoring techniques. Understanding the reality mapped by the resulting shorelines …