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Coastal engineering. --- Coast changes. --- Coastal erosion --- Coasts --- Shore erosion --- Erosion --- Littoral drift --- Physical geography --- Engineering --- Coastal zone management --- Shore protection

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One of the largest estuaries on the North Atlantic coast, Narragansett Bay served as a gateway for colonial expansion in the seventeenth century and the birthplace of American industrialization in the late eighteenth. Christopher Pastore presents an environmental history of this watery corner of the Atlantic world, beginning with the first European settlement in 1636 and ending with the dissolution of the Blackstone Canal Company in 1849. Between Land and Sea traces how the Bay's complex ecology shaped the contours of European habitation, trade, and resource use, and how littoral settlers in turn reconfigured the physical and cultural boundaries between humans and nature. Narragansett Bay emerges in Pastore's account as much more than a geological formation. Rather, he reimagines the nexus of land and sea as a brackish borderland shaped by the tension between what English settlers saw as improvable land and the perpetual forces of the North Atlantic Ocean. By draining swamps, damming rivers, and digging canals, settlers transformed a marshy coastal margin into a clearly defined edge. The resultant "coastline" proved less resilient, less able to absorb the blows of human initiative and natural variation than the soggy fractal of water and earth it replaced. Today, as sea levels rise and superstorms batter coasts with increasing ferocity, Between Land and Sea calls on the environmentally-minded to make a space in their notions of progress for impermanence and uncertainty in the natural world.

Coast changes --- Coastal erosion --- Coasts --- Shore erosion --- Littoral drift --- Physical geography --- History. --- Erosion --- Atlantic Coast (New England)

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Sandy beaches represent some of the most dynamic environments on Earth and examining their morphodynamic behaviour over different temporal and spatial scales is challenging, relying on multidisciplinary approaches and techniques. Sandy Beach Morphodynamics brings together the latest research on beach systems and their morphodynamics and the ways in which they are studied in 29 chapters that review the full spectrum of beach morphodynamics. The chapters are written by leading experts in the field and provide introductory level understanding of physical processes and resulting landforms, along with more advanced discussions.

Beaches. --- Coast changes. --- Sediment transport. --- Fluvial sediment transport --- Stream sediment transport --- Transport, Sediment --- Erosion --- Coastal erosion --- Coasts --- Shore erosion --- Littoral drift --- Physical geography --- Landforms --- Seashore

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This volume is a collection of papers, preceded by an introductory essay, on coastal physiography.

Coast changes --- Coasts --- -Coastal landforms --- Coastal zones --- Coastlines --- Landforms --- Seashore --- Coastal erosion --- Shore erosion --- Littoral drift --- Physical geography --- Erosion --- Coast changes. --- Geografie --- Fysische geografie --- Oceonografie, Kust. --- -Coast changes. --- Physical geography. --- Physical Geography. --- Geography

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70 % des côtes de la planète sont soumises à l'érosion. En France, les mesures récoltées depuis plus de deux siècles montrent que la vitesse du recul est de un à deux mètres par an en moyenne. Tous les spécialistes s'accordent pour dire que ce phénomène n'est pas près de s'inverser : les côtes vont continuer à reculer, c'est maintenant une certitude ; les données les plus récentes soulignent même une accélération de l'érosion. Peut-on réellement résister à un phénomène d'une telle ampleur ? Peut-on, doit-on défendre tel ou tel front de mer menacé ? Si oui, comment le défendre ? Qui financera la protection ? Peut-on, à l'inverse, accepter la disparition d'ici à la fin du siècle, de bandes de terrain de 100 ou 200 mètres de profondeur, avec les bâtiments qu'elles supportent ? C'est à ces questions très concrètes que doivent répondre les responsables publics. À travers l'exemple du littoral dunaire aquitain, espace modelé par l'homme au siècle dernier et perçu aujourd'hui comme l'une des côtes les plus sauvages de l'hexagone, l'auteur montre les pistes qui se dessinent pour gérer le recul inéluctable du rivage.

Shore protection --- Coast changes --- Coastlines management - South West France. --- Coastal erosion --- Coasts --- Shore erosion --- Littoral drift --- Physical geography --- Beach erosion --- Coast protection --- Coast protective works --- Coastal zone management --- Coastal engineering --- Hydraulic engineering --- Reclamation of land --- Erosion --- Prevention