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Coastal Defense: Rico Fuentes Jr. BSCE-5
Coastal Defense: Rico Fuentes Jr. BSCE-5
Coastal defenses are a key part of coastal management, in which the land-
sea boundary is protected from flooding and erosion, categorized as hard
engineering is used to protect coasts, by absorbing energy of waves, while soft
engineering is a shoreline practice that uses sustainable ecological principles to
restore shoreline stabilization and protect riparian habitat. A coastal zones
accommodate more than 40% of the world’s population. Historically, this is due
to the increased commercial and industrial potential of areas that are near the
coast, such as shipping, fishing and tourism industries.
DEFINITION OF
TERMS
Coastal – defined as the interface or transition areas between land and sea.
Coastal Engineering – is a branch of civil engineering concerned with the specific demands posed by constructing at or near the coast.
Dune – is an amount of sand, hill or ridge of sand that lies behind the part of the beach affected by tides.
Nourishment – describes a process by which sediment, usually sand, lost through longshore drift or erosion is replaced from other
sources
Dikes – is a sheet of rock that formed in a fracture in a pre-existing rock body.
Longshore current – is a geological process that consists of the transportation of sediments along a coast parallel to the shoreline.
Seaward – the side that faces or is nearer to the sea.
Offshore – away from or at a distance from the coast.
Shoreline – is the fringe of land at the edge of a large body of water, such as an ocean, sea, or lake.
Wave Energy – is the transport and capture of energy by ocean surface waves.
Rubble mound – is used for protection of harbors and beaches against wave action.
Stepped face – designed to limit wave run up and overtopping.
Curved face – is designed to enable waves to break to dissipate wave energy and to repel waves back to the sea.
Erosion – is the action of surface processes such as water flow or winf that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material.