Beach-Inlet Interaction and Sediment Management
Beach-Inlet Interaction and Sediment Management by Ping Wang, published by Cambridge University Press on October 6, 2022, is a comprehensive exploration of coastal resources, specifically focusing on beaches, barrier islands, and tidal inlets. This new edition, comprising 368 pages, delves into the dynamic nature of these landforms, which are influenced by both natural processes and energetic storms. The book emphasizes the interconnectedness of these systems and the importance of understanding their morphologic features and the processes that shape them.
Readers will find a detailed discussion on the sediment exchange between sandy beaches and tidal inlets, highlighting the challenges posed by environmental change. The text serves as a valuable reference for graduate students, researchers, and professionals in coastal management and geomorphology. Illustrated with numerous aerial photographs, it effectively demonstrates the interactions among various morphologic features, aiming to balance sediment resources while maintaining natural processes. This book is a significant contribution to the fields of Earth sciences and environmental science.
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Beaches, barrier islands and tidal inlets are valuable coastal resources and provide desirable environments that are often densely populated. They are dynamic landforms that change constantly, driven by both normal processes and energetic storms. They behave as one interconnected system and must be understood and managed as such. This book discusses their various morphologic features, as well as the processes that shape them and future challenges due to environmental change. A major focus is placed on the interaction between sandy beaches and tidal inlets, and the sediment exchange among various morphologic features. Balancing these valuable sediment resources while maintaining the natural sediment exchange constitutes a major goal of modern shore protection and coastal management. Illustrated with numerous aerial photographs to demonstrate how beaches and tidal inlets interact, this book provides a valuable reference for graduate students, researchers and professionals working in coastal management and geomorphology.
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