8 articles in this issue
Francisco Javier Gracia Prieto
Coastal environments are characterized by their high dynamism, related to the interaction between marine agents (winds, waves, currents, sea level changes) and continental forms and processes. The present article summarizes the main morphodynamic characte... see more
J.A.G. Cooper
Sandy beaches occur in a wide variety of environmental settings and as components of a diverse range of coastal system types. These variations among beaches lead to significant differences in their mesoscale (multi-decadal, km length scale) behaviour, inc... see more
Augusto Pérez-Alberti
There are several coastal classifications. Most of them have been elaborated worldwide using tectonic, climatic, topographic, or oceanographic criteria. Other classifications have been generated on a larger scale and focused on classifying the coastal for... see more
María Aranda García,Francisco Javier Gracia Prieto,Inmaculada Rodríguez-Santalla
The present work focuses on the recent morphological changes recorded in the Ebro River delta, by using aerial photographs in the last six decades and by analyzing changes in the main constitutive features through geomorphological maps. Geomorphological m... see more
Josep E. Pardo-Pascual,Jesús M. Palomar-Vázquez,Carlos Cabezas-Rabadán
Beaches are spaces of paramount importance for coastal societies currently threatened by coastal erosion. Their preservation requires accurate quantification of their changes in order to understand their behavior and to propose efficient solutions. Landsa... see more
Rosa Molina-Gil,Giorgio Manno,Carlo Lo Re,Giorgio Anfuso
In past decades coastal, erosion related impacts on the world’s shorelines have been significantly growing due to ongoing coastal development and tourist occupation as well as to natural erosion/flooding events exacerbated by climatic change. Ocean ... see more
Francesc Xavier Roig-Munar,Carla Garcia-Lozano,Antonio Rodríguez-Perea,José Ángel Martín-Prieto,Bernadi Gelabert
In order to restore, maintain and protect the beach-dune systems of the Balearic Islands different management techniques have been applied. They have been based on the artificial emulation of natural processes to favour the recovery of the system, on the ... see more
Carla Garcia-Lozano,Francesc Xavier Roig-Munar,Aaron M. Santana-Cordero,Carolina Martí-Llambrich,Josep Pinto
Coastal areas constitute one of the most difficult domains to manage, due to the several human activities and natural processes concentrated in it. The case of the coastal dunes is special, since they are so fragile and any intervention on them can cause ... see more