Overview of Coastal Wiki articles related to engineering measures

Hard measures

• Hard shoreline protection structures
• Protection against coastal erosion
• Shore protection, coast protection and sea defence methods
• Hard structures and structural erosion
• Sand by-pass systems
• Groynes
• Groynes as shore protection
• Deteriorated groynes
• Detached breakwaters
• Applicability of detached breakwaters
• Detached shore parallel breakwaters
• Application of breakwaters
• Floating breakwaters
• Perched beaches
• Revetments
• Seawalls and revetments
• Overtopping resistant dikes

Soft measures

• Soft shoreline protection solutions
• Artificial reefs
• Natural barriers
• Dynamics, threats and management of biogenic reefs
• Sand-filled geosystems in coastal engineering
• Beach nourishment
• Artificial nourishment
• Shore nourishment
• Experiences with beach nourishments in Portugal
• Beach drainage
• Sand dune types - Europe
• Dynamics, threats and management of dunes

Wind and wave energy

• Wave energy converters
• Wave energy converters in coastal structures
• Offshore wind farm development in Germany

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