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• Characteristics of muddy coasts
  This article provides an introduction to and summary of habitats derived from fine sediments suspended in tidal waters. ...muddy shoreface, sometimes in the form of muddy tidal flats, and the lack of a sandy shore.
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• Human causes of coastal erosion
  ...s correspond to alternating phases of erosion and accretion. [[Definitions of coastal terms#Coastal erosion|Structural erosion or accretion]] can only ha ...of coastal erosion]] are discussed in another article. Most of the content of this article is drawn from Mangor et al. 2017 <ref> Mangor, K., Drønen, N.
  29 KB (4,651 words) - 22:27, 2 July 2022
• Dune stabilisation
  ...ural quasi-equilibrium situation. The [[erosion]] of [[dune]]s as a result of a severe storm surge is also referred to as [[dune erosion]]. ...ch and the front dune and are adapted to retain drifting sand. An overview of sand binding plants that are adapted to saline, nutrient-poor and harsh hyd
  9 KB (1,306 words) - 19:25, 1 August 2023
• Beach drainage
  ...el of the beach near the installation line, thus also increasing the width of the beach. ...g and application of a beach drainage system. Beach drainage is an example of a soft shoreline protection solution.
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• Fluid mud
  ...nsion of fine cohesive sediment particles (< 63 µm with a high percentage of clay particles < 2 µm). }} ...EPS, extracellular polymeric substances exuded by organisms. The fraction of organic matter in marine mud is generally very small, especially in compari
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• Rip current
  ...ates from the shore after passing a headland. A more restricted definition of a rip current is: [[File:MorphoRip.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Fig. 1. Schematic view of a rip cell. Beach: yellow, sea: blue; shallow water: light blue; nearshore
  8 KB (1,278 words) - 10:16, 3 July 2022
• Sea level rise
  ...verage long-term global rise of the ocean surface measured from the centre of the earth (or more precisely, from the earth reference ellipsoid), as deriv ...e University Press.</ref> for the year 2100 are similar to the projections of the 2019 report<ref name=I/>.
  41 KB (6,164 words) - 16:08, 21 January 2024
• Shoreline management
  ...to planned or existing development activities on the coast. The objectives of Shoreline Management are <ref name="Karsten">Mangor, K., Drønen, N. K., Ka ...arge parts of this article are taken from the coastal engineering handbook of Reeve, Chadwick and Fleming (2018)<ref> Reeve, D., Chadwick, A. and Fleming
  38 KB (5,697 words) - 22:31, 2 July 2022
• Economic valuation of goods and services of the UK coastal and marine ecosystem
  ...ere possible. Estimating the [[Total Economic Value|total economic value]] of the coastal ecosystem in monetary terms can prevent overexploitation and en ==The valuation of biodiversity==
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• DeCyDe for Sustainability Policy tool
  ...bility: The self-assessment of sustainability using indicators and a means of scoring them'''.</span> ...ce for the purpose of improving the sustainable development and management of coastal zones.
  25 KB (3,543 words) - 21:40, 7 August 2021
• Blue carbon sequestration
  ...293–301</ref>. However, nearly 50% of the pre-industrial, natural extent of global coastal wetlands have been lost since the 19th century<ref>Li, X., B ...s role can be used to generate finances that contribute to the realization of nature-based coastal protection and other ecosystem services delivered by c
  41 KB (6,267 words) - 13:40, 21 April 2024
• Common biomarkers for the assessment of marine pollution
  ...le [[biomarker]]s that can be used on bivalves or fish to assess the level of marine [[pollution]]. ...In the case of fish, even though the sampling is expensive, the importance of their use is linked to their position in the trophic chain and their high c
  24 KB (3,412 words) - 18:18, 5 November 2019
• Waves and currents by X-band radar
  ...f a [[remote sensing]] technique. This article starts with an introduction of the measurement technique. Furthermore it explains how obtained [[data]] ca ...ge and its impact on coastal protection, wave and current measurements are of growing importance.
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• Nutrient conversion in the marine environment
  ...provides a brief introduction to the processes involved in the conversion of the main nutrients: nitrogen, phosphorus and silicon. ...63</ref>, very different from the Redfield ratio 16:1 (average N:P ratio of phytoplankton).
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• Dune erosion
  ...h dune erosion by storms and provides some simple rules from which retreat of the dune front can be estimated. The focus is on the so-called 'collision r ...te Holocene aeolian dune formation on the storm-dominated macrotidal coast of the southern North Sea. Marine Geology 276: 100–104</ref>, see also the a
  42 KB (6,534 words) - 12:05, 15 November 2023
• North Sea pollution from shipping: legal framework
  ....aspx IMO]), the general rules in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea ([https://www.un.org/depts/los/convention_agreements/convention_ove ...//www.imo.org/en/About/Pages/Default.aspx IMO], a specialized organisation of the United Nations.
  52 KB (7,826 words) - 12:32, 12 July 2020
• Measuring instruments for coasts
  ...of sediment transport along the coast. The article also goes into location of sampling. . The order of preference is based on the overall sampling accuracy.
  12 KB (1,782 words) - 11:43, 7 September 2020
• Greek case studies: Long term geomorphological changes in the coastal zone of the Thermaikos Gulf, Salonika Region, North Greece
  ...hysical & Environmental Geography, School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece''' ...sent). The Holocene transgression caused the inundation of the lower parts of the valley and gradually led to the present shoreline configuration.
  12 KB (1,857 words) - 21:58, 28 June 2019
• Global Forum of Oceans, Coasts and Islands
  ...undations) with the common goal of encouraging the sustainable development of oceans, coasts, and islands. ...velopment (OECD); and Magdalena Muir, Research Associate, Arctic Institute of North America.
  16 KB (2,281 words) - 16:59, 1 August 2019
• Kyoto Protocol
  ...ic]] interference with the climate system". In essence reduce the emission of greenhouse gases that cause global warming. ...1990 levels in the commitment period 2008-2012. After two and a half years of intense negotiations, the Kyoto Protocol was adopted at COP 3 in Kyoto, Jap
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