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Hesp (2011) Dune Coasts
What are the four main coastal du...,
What is the crucial first factor ...,
What is the dominant force in dri...
40
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Houser (2009) Summary of beach-dune interactions
Most barrier islands and spits ar...,
What happens to barrier islands d...,
What does the redistribution of s...
6
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List et al (2006) Storm Erosion
Define coastal erosion,
What has been found when studying...
2
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On ripple formation (winds)
What do ripples on sand originate...,
When do ripples arise,
What is saltation
6
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Harley (2017) Long term profiles
What is the primary driver of lar...
1
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Werner & Fink (1993) Beach cusps
What are beach cusps,
What do cusps result from,
What conditions favour beach cusp...
3
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Kirwan & Megonigal (2013) Marsh Dynamics
Why are marshes and mangroves so ...,
At the most basic level what must...,
How do plants influence mineral s...
5
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Limber et al (2014) Rocky Coasts
Why do headlands persist in time,
Why are some headlands transient,
How do beaches exert a fundamenta...
10
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Coco & Murray (2007) - patterns in the sand
The source and significance of no...,
The dissipative nature of the nea...,
Feedbacks play a key role in spon...
9
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Limber & Murray (2011) - rocky coast evolution
On cliff backed rocky coastlines ...,
How do beaches play a role of reg...,
Cliff retreat is minimised in two...
3
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Houser and Ellis (2013) - beach and dune interaction
Ultimately what does dune develop...,
Differences in the rate of dune f...,
What does coastal dunes require t...
14
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Kirwan et al. (2016) - marsh vulnerability
Why are marshes useful,
Where do marshes occur and what d...
2
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Leonardi & Fagherazzi (2014) - wave attack
According to analysis when salt m...,
If salt marshes continue declinin...,
Salt marshes are very resilient w...
5
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Fagherazzi (2014) - marshes & storms
Coasts have become more vulnerabl...,
Salt marshes occur on shorelines in,
What poses the biggest threat to ...
5
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Toomey et al. (2013) - atoll formation
What reveals that a wide variety ...,
What is the primary control on th...,
Coral growth rate and thus reef a...
3
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Limber et al. (2014) - rocky coasts (headlands & beaches)
What does this wave forced negati...,
What can create persistent headla...,
Difference between sea cliff retr...
8
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Cheong et al. (2013) - coastal adaptation using ecology
What do combined strategies offer...,
What does coastal adaptation in a...,
What does the integrated coastal ...
12
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Temmerman & Kirwan (2015) - building land with SLR
Coastal lowlands are increasingly...,
Investments in coastal and river ...,
Apart from the socioeconomic cons...
6
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Temmerman et al. (2013) - ecosystem-based coastal defence
Coastal flood risks are likely to...,
Growing coastal populations mean ...,
Conventional coastal engineering ...
8
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Ma et al. (2014) - Great Seawall of China
China s position as the world s s...,
To create extra land for the rapi...,
Importance of chinas coastal wetl...
4
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EA Flood risk assessment (March 2018)
How many homes and businesses in ...,
What is natural flood management nfm,
Information about the risk of flo...
3
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Lazarus et al (2016) - human-coastal systems
Humans as a geomorphic force,
A groyne field that traps beach s...,
Schematic of beach nourishment as...
5
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Werner & McNamara (2007) - coupled human-landscape systems
Humans and landscapes are coupled...,
Landscape processes impact humans...,
Example of the positive feedback ...
3
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Kabat et al (2009) - Dutch coasts
How many live in the netherlands ...,
Roughly how much of the country s...,
Flood safety standards of dykes i...
3
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Steneck et al. (2011) - gilded traps
Unsustainable fishing simplifies ...,
Enturies of intense fishing have ...,
What are gilded traps
6
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Sand mafias (The Independent)
Sand seems like a limitless resou...,
What is now the most extracted ma...,
The trade value of sand has incre...
5
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Global sand crisis (The Conversation)
Over exploitation of global suppl...,
Vietnam,
What are the most extracted mater...
7
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Sand shortage (The Economist)
India s sand mafia is doing a roa...,
A 2014 report by the united natio...,
Sand often makes up the very grou...
5
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Sand shortages (NPR)
We are building cities at a pace ...,
Theres so much demand for sand ri...
2
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Owens on sand shortage (The New Yorker)
Sand isn t just sand it turns out...,
What is the world s second most h...,
Pascal peduzzi a swiss scientist ...
8
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