Engineered Coasts

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Beach Nourishment

   • C. W. Finkl, H. J. Walker

   Pages 1-22

3. Beach Nourishment: Case Studies

   • H. J. Walker, C. W. Finkl

   Pages 23-59

4. The Mississippi River: Engineered Routes to the Sea

   • H. Jesse Walker, Donald W. Davis

   Pages 61-83

5. Tokyo Bay Reformation

   • Kenji Hotta

   Pages 85-102

6. Offshore Construction and Ocean Space Utilization in Japan

   • Kenji Hotta

   Pages 103-119

7. Reclamation and River Training in the Qiantang Estuary

   • Han Zengcui, Dai Zeheng

   Pages 121-138

8. The Seawall in Qiantang Estuary

   • Jiang Wei, Tao Cunhuan

   Pages 139-150

9. Marinas, Sea-Level Reservoirs, Solar Salt Pans and Other Artificial Shorelines

   • H. Jesse Walker

   Pages 151-183

10. Regulation of the Changjiang Estuary: Past, Present and Future

    • Chen Jiyu, Li Daoji

    Pages 185-197

11. Reclamation and Regulation in the Pearl River Delta, China

    • Lei Yaping, Wu Chao-Yu, Chen Jiyu

    Pages 199-228

12. Coastal Protection, Structures and (Sea)Dikes

    • Jan van de Graaff

    Pages 229-247

13. The Delta Project

    • G. J. Schiereck

    Pages 249-268

14. The Rotterdam Harbour: The Connection with the North Sea and Europoort

    • G. J. Schiereck, D. Eisma

    Pages 269-278

15. The Netherlands: The Zuyder Zee Project

    • Marcel J. F. Stive, Ronald E. Waterman

    Pages 279-290

16. The Thames Barrier

    • Charles J. Vos

    Pages 291-308

17. Back Matter

    Pages 309-312

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Increasing population, expanding industry and commerce, and tourism are placing added pressures on an already highly-utilized coastal zone. This book, through a series of case studies, illustrates the variety of changes already made along the coastlines of the world. The examples used are mainly from China, Japan, The Netherlands, and the United States, all countries with extensively engineered shorelines. Modifications emphasized include those associated with protection against coastal erosion, building of artificial beaches and islands, reclamation for aquaculture and agriculture, and the construction of harbors. The information in this book should be useful for all planners and engineers involved in the construction of coastal engineering works and for students interested in coastal modification.

• Coast
• Delta
• Deltas
• Ocean
• erosion
• estuary
• hydrogeology

• State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, Shanghai, P.R. China

  Jiyu Chen

• Utrecht University, Texel, The Netherlands

  Doeke Eisma

• Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel, The Netherlands

  Doeke Eisma

• College of Science and Technology, Nihon University, Chiba, Japan

  Kenji Hotta

• Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA

  H. Jesse Walker

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