Assessing of detached breakwaters and beach nourishment environmental impacts in Italy: A review

N Cantasano, F Boccalaro, F Ietto - Environmental Monitoring and …, 2023 - Springer
Coastal regions are exposed to natural phenomena such as sea waves, sea level rise,
climate change, and flooding events. These factors, along with human pressures, lead to an …

Beach drainage system: a comprehensive review of a controversial soft-engineering method

P Fischione, D Pasquali, D Celli, C Di Nucci… - Journal of Marine …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The beach drainage can be included among the soft engineering methods aimed to
counteract the shoreline retreat related to the sediment redistribution along the beach …

The effects of urban and economic development on coastal zone management

D Pasquali, A Marucci - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The land transformation process in the last decades produced the urbanization growth in flat
and coastal areas all over the world. The combination of natural phenomena and human …

Experimental investigation on cross-shore profile evolution of reef-fronted beach

Y Li, C Zhang, S Chen, H Qi, W Dai, H Zhu, T Sui… - Coastal …, 2025 - Elsevier
Physical experiments on cross-shore profile evolution of the reef-fronted beach are
conducted considering various offshore wave conditions and reef settings. Cross-shore …

Influence of artificial sandbar on nonlinear wave transformation: Experimental investigation and parameterizations

Y Li, C Zhang, S Chen, T Sui, D Chen, H Qi - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Wave nonlinearity is a main driving force for near-bed sediment transport, and thus affects
the beach evolution. Accurate prediction of wave nonlinearity is an essential need for the …

Roles of breaking and reflection in wave energy attenuation on the shoreface-nourished beach

Y Li, P Wang, Q Li, W Dai, B Zhao, D Chen… - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Shoreface nourishments with the artificial sandbar are effective strategies to mitigate coastal
erosions mainly by wave breaking and reflection. Thus, a better understanding of the …

Comparative analysis of coastal flooding vulnerability and hazard assessment at national scale

M Di Risio, A Bruschi, I Lisi, V Pesarino… - Journal of Marine …, 2017 - mdpi.com
The evaluation of the coastal hazard and vulnerability caused by storm conditions is an
important issue related to coastal flooding and erosion. Although these topics have been …

Wave-induced dynamic pressure under rubble mound breakwaters with submerged berm: An experimental and numerical study

D Celli, D Pasquali, P Fischione, C Di Nucci… - Coastal …, 2021 - Elsevier
The main aim of the present work is to provide an experimental and numerical seabed
pressure dataset beneath rubble mound breakwaters with submerged berms. The …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental investigation on the effects of shoreface nourishment placement and timing on long-term cross-shore profile development

BE Larsen, R Carstensen, S Carstensen… - Coastal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Experimental results involving shoreface nourishment scenarios are presented. The
experiments are performed at small scale and the effects of nourishment placement and …

[HTML][HTML] The importance of geotechnical evaluation and shoreline evolution in coastal vulnerability index calculations

V Boumboulis, D Apostolopoulos, N Depountis… - Journal of Marine …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The aim of this specific study is to present a new weighted Coastal Vulnerability Index (CVI
WF), with an emphasis given to the geotechnical evaluation and shoreline evolution rate …