Aquaculture is the fastest growing sector of the food industry, raising concerns about the
influence of this activity on the environment. We take a holistic approach to review off-bottom …

Finding a balance between the preservation of habitat, species and the sustainable
development of human activities in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) is made even more …

Coastal erosion at Saint Louis in Senegal is affecting the local population that consists of
primarily fishermen communities in their housing and their access to the sea. This paper …

Some of the striking results of the papers published in the special publication “French
Incised valleys, estuaries and lagoons” of the Bulletin de la Société géologique de France …

Sand spits with distal hooks have been well documented from coasts with low to moderate
tidal ranges, unlike high tidal‐range environments. Datasets from 15 LiDAR and 3 UAV …

A complex coastal environment with a river outlet, a sand spit barrier and an estuary of such
coastal features is controlled by wave-induced hydrodynamics and sediment dynamics. The …

We investigate the controls upon the shape of freely extending spits using a one-contour-
line model of shoreline evolution. In contrast to existing frameworks that suggest that spits …

Constructed of poorly lithified carbonate sediments with elevations of< 3–5 m above MSL,
coral reef islands are considered extremely vulnerable to the effects of anthropogenic …

Erosion of the southern Gold Coast beaches (SE Queensland, Australia) was exacerbated
after the extension of the Tweed River training walls in the early 1960s. To achieve the …

Tidal inlets along the central coast of Vietnam are located in a microtidal, wave-dominated
coastal environment. In addition, the Vietnam coast is highly influenced by the seasonal …