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Coastal Engineering: Processes, Theory and Design Practice

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This book begins with a short history of coastal engineering. There is an introduction to beach morphology, followed by an entire chapter on wave theory. The authors also focus on sea levels and their implications for coastal engineering, and then move on to coastal transport processes. Risk is assessed in terms of recurrence interval. A chapter is devoted to field methods.

Among the shore protection structures examined are breakwaters, groynes, and seawalls. A moderate amount of attention is devoted to beach nourishment. A design example is also included in which armoured rocks are used for the coastal defense.

This book seems to have a balance of such things as coastal engineering concepts, case histories, mathematical equations, photographs and diagrams, etc. There is a list of symbols used throughout the book, as well as appendices that explain statistical concepts and terminology, maximum likelihood estimation, and harmonic analysis results.

I used this book in my civil engineering undergraduate course in coastal engineering and found it to be very useful and relevant to what was being taught. The layout makes each chapter very easy to understand and example problems are very helpful. The authors did a great job in putting this unique text on coastal engineering together.

We've interviewed Dominic Reeve, author of the yet to be released book "Coastal Management in the Face of Climate Change". Dominic touches on the impact of climate change on coasts worldwide, major challenges in Asia and where coastal engineering will be in 2020. For the full interview, please click here: [...]