ECOLOGICALLY BASED APPROACH TO COASTAL DEFENCE DESIGN AND PLANNING

Barbara Zanuttigh; Inigo Losada; Richard Thompson

doi:10.9753/icce.v32.management.50

No. 32 (2010), Coastal Management, Environment, and Risk

No. 32 (2010)

ECOLOGICALLY BASED APPROACH TO COASTAL DEFENCE DESIGN AND PLANNING

Coastal Management, Environment, and Risk

https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v32.management.50

Published 2011-01-17

Barbara Zanuttigh⁺⁻
Inigo Losada⁺⁻
Richard Thompson⁺⁻

Barbara Zanuttigh

University of Bologna

Inigo Losada

Universidad de Cantabria

Richard Thompson

University of Plymouth

Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference

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sustainability
design
procedure
environment
numerical model

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Zanuttigh, B., Losada, I., & Thompson, R. (2011). ECOLOGICALLY BASED APPROACH TO COASTAL DEFENCE DESIGN AND PLANNING. Coastal Engineering Proceedings, 1(32), management.50. https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v32.management.50

Abstract

Sustainability of coastal areas requires the development of a standard procedure for the selection of equitable defence solutions and the design optimization of existing defences in order to minimize the impact on the environment and maximize positive effects such as species biodiversity and structure colonization. The aim of this paper is to propose a combined method, based on numerical simulations and on collection of ecological data in the field, to provide indications for an environmental friendly construction of breakwaters. This method is applied and tested against the case study of Elmer, UK, where information on existing species and their abundance related to hydrodynamic effects induced by the breakwaters

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