| schema:tocEntry | "Section 1: Ecology and the coastal environment The flushing of pollution from recreational boating in tidal embayments with application to Great Salt Pond on Block Island; Assessment of the abundance of actively respiring cells and dead cells within the total bacterioplankton of the Strait of Messina waters; Monitoring activities following the grounding of the MSC Napoli in Lyme Bay, UK, in 2007; Human effects and degradation processes on the Aegean coastal zone; Tourism impact on coastal environment; Impacts of a changing climate and low land use on a Tropical Montane Cloud Forest Section 2: Coastal restoration Environmental enhancement gone awry: characterization of an artificial reef constructed from waste vehicle tires; Evaluation of armor stone performance and deterioration Section 3: Management of risk Predicting ecological resilience of marine benthic communities facing a high risk of oil spills; Modeling riverbank stability and potential risk to development in the Penobscot River estuary of Maine, USA; Data gathering guidelines for the mapping of environmental sensitivity to oil spill of the Italian coastlines; Place of refuge selection for ships aiming at reduction of environmental hazards Section 4: Water quality issues Saline stratification and its influence on fine sediment transport in a semi-enclosed tidal lagoon, West Sussex, UK; Environmental impact on chemical/oil spill in the Persian Gulf; The blue planet earth systems approach (BEPESA) for the study of water related systems Section 5: Sediment transport Influence of climate and anthropogenous activity on the terrigenous sedimentation dynamics of the Sea of Azov in the second part of the XXth century; Pre-reservoirs: a sustainable solution for eroding beaches/deltas of dammed rivers; Characteristics of beach profiles and bar formation changes along the coasts of Hokkaido; A sheet flow model to estimate the sediment transport rate for beaches backed by seawalls Section 6: Coastal dunes Morphodynamics of the Morfa Dyffryn coastal dunes, mid-Wales: photographic survey 1988-2007; Three-dimensional flow simulation over a complex sand dune system...(more)" |