Year: 2010 Language: english Author: Young C Kim Genre: Handbook Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 1190 Description: Although coastal and ocean engineering is a very ancient field with the construction of Port A-ur near the mouth of the Nile in 3,000 BC, significant advances in this field have been made in the last several decades. The rise of interest in this field can be seen from the number of attendees by academics and practitioners in international conferences. The first International Conference on Coastal Engineering was held in Long Beach, California in 1950 with less than 100 people. When the same conference was held in San Diego, California, in 2006, over 1000 delegates attended. In the last several decades, the world has seen significant coastal and ocean engineering projects, one of which is the Delta Project in the Netherlands. This project was designed to shorten and strengthen the total length of coast and dykes washed by the sea by closing off the sea arms in the Delta region. Other noteworthy coastal engineering projects include the Kansai Airport Project in Japan and, in recent years, the construction of mobile barriers at inlets to regulate tides in the Venice Lagoon known as the Venice Project. Interest in coastal and ocean engineering has arisen in recent years as humankind experiences coastal disasters that derive from coastal storm, hurricane and coastal flooding and seismic activities such as tsunamis, and the impacts of climate change which result in sea-level rise. The tsunami activity in Sumatra in December 2004 affected countries throughout the Indian Ocean and resulted in the loss of thousands of lives. Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans also claimed many lives with property damage exceeding $63 billion. Global warming and sea-level rise will affect shoreline retreats, inundate low coastal areas, damage coastal structures, and accelerate beach erosion. The need for better understanding of our coastal and ocean environment has risen considerably in recent years.
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Handbook Of Coastal And Ocean Engineering
Language: english
Author: Young C Kim
Genre: Handbook
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 1190
Description: Although coastal and ocean engineering is a very ancient field with the construction
of Port A-ur near the mouth of the Nile in 3,000 BC, significant advances in this
field have been made in the last several decades. The rise of interest in this field can
be seen from the number of attendees by academics and practitioners in international
conferences. The first International Conference on Coastal Engineering was
held in Long Beach, California in 1950 with less than 100 people. When the same
conference was held in San Diego, California, in 2006, over 1000 delegates attended.
In the last several decades, the world has seen significant coastal and ocean engineering
projects, one of which is the Delta Project in the Netherlands. This project
was designed to shorten and strengthen the total length of coast and dykes washed
by the sea by closing off the sea arms in the Delta region. Other noteworthy coastal
engineering projects include the Kansai Airport Project in Japan and, in recent
years, the construction of mobile barriers at inlets to regulate tides in the Venice
Lagoon known as the Venice Project. Interest in coastal and ocean engineering
has arisen in recent years as humankind experiences coastal disasters that derive
from coastal storm, hurricane and coastal flooding and seismic activities such as
tsunamis, and the impacts of climate change which result in sea-level rise. The
tsunami activity in Sumatra in December 2004 affected countries throughout the
Indian Ocean and resulted in the loss of thousands of lives. Hurricane Katrina in
New Orleans also claimed many lives with property damage exceeding $63 billion.
Global warming and sea-level rise will affect shoreline retreats, inundate low coastal
areas, damage coastal structures, and accelerate beach erosion. The need for better
understanding of our coastal and ocean environment has risen considerably in
recent years.
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