Beach Management: Principles and Practice

✍ Scribed by Allan Williams, Anton Micallef

• Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 480
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This comprehensive book provides full coverage of beach management principles and practice, with an emphasis on needs-based management. The book provides a wealth of case studies from the UK, USA, New Zealand, the Mediterranean, and Latin America. The emphasis throughout the book is on optimizing economic, social and environmental outcomes and reconciling competing needs in management planning for beach area. This book is an indispensable tool kit for all professionals in beach and coastal/beach zone management . It is also a comprehensive primer for university undergraduate students in professional planning, land management, coastal geography as well as tourism and conservation planning and management.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
List of Boxes, Figures and Tables......Page 12
Foreword......Page 20
Preface......Page 24
Acknowledgements......Page 30
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations......Page 32
Introduction......Page 36
Key management elements......Page 38
Beach processes and typology......Page 42
Theoretical concepts......Page 66
Legislative aspects of beach management......Page 75
Strategic management......Page 79
Management of low-lying rocky shores......Page 85
Shoreline management plans......Page 87
Beach management policy......Page 94
Beach management strategy......Page 96
Beach management plans......Page 100
Beach management models......Page 105
Appropriate beach management guidelines......Page 122
Introduction......Page 142
Questionnaire design......Page 143
The interview......Page 150
Introduction......Page 156
Hazards......Page 157
Hazard signage......Page 168
Dimension analysis......Page 174
Function analysis......Page 188
Environmental risk assessment method......Page 196
Introduction......Page 202
Some rating schemes......Page 203
Comments......Page 220
Beach registration......Page 222
The bathing area registration and evaluation system......Page 227
Annex 1 Bathing Area Registration and Evaluation Form......Page 237
Case Studies......Page 254
Introduction......Page 256
Brief history of UK lifesaving......Page 257
Beach safety management......Page 260
Risk assessments......Page 261
Beach safety management plan......Page 265
The future......Page 267
Introduction......Page 270
Beach character......Page 271
Household survey results......Page 273
2004 pilot scheme......Page 274
Post-2004 season assessment......Page 275
Zoning plan for 2005......Page 277
Post-2005 season assessment......Page 278
Discussion......Page 279
Introduction......Page 282
Environmental settings of Itapocorói Bay......Page 283
Ameliorative strategies at Balnário Piçarras beach......Page 288
Conceptual model of preventive and ameliorative strategies......Page 293
Conclusions......Page 296
Introduction......Page 298
The recent development of global ocean policy and legislation......Page 299
The UK perspective of coastal and marine policy: Present and future......Page 301
Integration of policy and management......Page 303
Linking marine management to coastal and terrestrial planning and management......Page 305
Conclusions......Page 306
Note......Page 307
Introduction......Page 308
Hapua systems......Page 309
The catchment context......Page 315
Hapua in a New Zealand resource and environmental management context......Page 317
Conclusion......Page 321
Introduction......Page 322
Poetto beach (Cagliari, Sardinia)......Page 325
Cala Gonone beach (Dorgali, Sardinia)......Page 334
Notes......Page 341
Introduction......Page 342
Site characteristics......Page 343
Recent history of management actions......Page 345
Adaptive management......Page 347
Outreach and public education......Page 348
Discussion and conclusions......Page 350
Introduction......Page 352
Analysis of social support capacity in Balneário Camboriú......Page 355
Conclusions......Page 358
Introduction......Page 360
Condo construction on the Jump-off Joe landslide......Page 361
The Capes development and El Niño erosion......Page 364
Reflections......Page 367
Introduction......Page 370
Çirali......Page 371
The situation......Page 373
Future scenarios......Page 381
Conclusions......Page 382
Introduction......Page 384
Some reflections on new planning directions and beach management......Page 391
Conclusions......Page 392
Introduction......Page 394
Physical background......Page 396
Beach management......Page 398
Discussion......Page 400
Conclusions......Page 403
References......Page 404
Appendix 1 Beach Questionnaires......Page 436
Appendix 2 Assessment of Aesthetic Quality of Coastal and Bathing Beaches: Monitoring Protocol and Classification Scheme......Page 448
List of Contributors......Page 456
Index......Page 462