Table of Contents

Introduction.- 1. Pitfalls of Shoreline Stabilisation - Tweed River Mouth, Gold Coast, Australia.- 2. Adelaide beach management 1836-2025.- 3. Pitfalls of ebb shoal mining.- 4. Documenting beach loss in front of seawalls in Puerto Rico: pitfalls of engineering a small island-nation shore.- 5. Narratives of shoreline erosion and protection at Shishmaref, Alaska: the anecdotal and the analytical.- 6. Portballintrae Bay, Northern Ireland: 116 years of misplaced management.- 7. Beach Nourishment in the United States.- 8. Failed Coastal stabilization: examples from the KwaZulu-Natal Coast, South Africa.- 9. Presque Isle Breakwaters: successful failures? - 10. Armoring on Eroding Coasts Leads to Beach Narrowing and Loss on Oahu, Hawaii.- 11. Compromising Reef Island Shoreline Dynamics: Legacies of the Engineering Paradigm in the Maldives.- 12. “Alternative” shoreline erosion control devices: a review.- 13. Bad practice in erosion management: the Southern Sicily case study.- 14. The history of shoreline stabilization on the Spanish Costa del Sol.- 15. Coastal defense in NW Portugal: the improbable victory.-16. Stabilizing the Forgotten Shore: Case study from the Delaware Bay.- 17. Shoreline stabilisation: lessons from South Wales.- 18. Coastal Stabilization Practice in France.- Index

Reviews

From the reviews:“This compendium of summaries of the impacts and unintended consequences of human attempts to stop coastal erosion … . Contributors describe human-built barriers or buffers for coastlines from a wide variety of settings, from the coast of Northern Ireland, to the Great Lakes in the US, to the Maldives. … chapters are instructive, analyze the situation, and adequately discuss approaches … . Summing Up: Recommended. … Professionals/practitioners.” (B. Ransom. Choice, Vol. 50 (6), February, 2013)