This book provides an overview of beach management tools, including carrying capacity, beach nourishment, environmental and tourism awards (like Blue Flag or ot

This comprehensive book provides full coverage of beach management principles and practice, with an emphasis on needs-based management. The book provides a weal

Whether a sunbathing beach in the Mediterranean, a surf beach in Australia, a conservation area in the UK or a wild section of wind-and wave-swept dunes on the

Covers the origins of beaches, the processes at work on them, the causes of erosion and accretion and ways in which attempts have been made to give protection a

First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.