Beach Management: Principles and Practice

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Routledge, 2009 M06 30 - 480 pages

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.

 

Contents

CHAPTER 1 An Introduction to Beach Management
1
CHAPTER 2 Fundamental Concepts of Beach Management
31
CHAPTER 3 Theoretical Models for Determining Beach Management Strategy and Management Plans
59
CHAPTER 4 Beach Management Guidelines
87
CHAPTER 5 Beach User Questionnaire Surveys
107
CHAPTER 6 Environmental Risk Management
121
CHAPTER 7 Innovative Application of Selected Management Tools to the Beach Environment
139
CHAPTER 8 Beach Awards and Rating Schemes
167
CHAPTER 9 A Bathing Area Registration and Classification Scheme
187
CASE STUDIES
219
References
369
Appendix 1 Beach Questionnaires
401
Monitoring Protocol and Classification Scheme
413
List of Contributors
421
Index
427
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About the author (2009)

Allan Williams is a Professorial Research Fellow at the Swansea Metropolitan University, Wales, UK and has published more than 250 academic papers on coastal science and geography.

Anton Micallef is a full-time lecturer at the University of Malta and has consulted and published on many aspects of the coastal environment. He is also Director of the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Insular Coastal Dynamics, a specialised Centre of the Council of Europe's Euro-Mediterranean Major Hazards Agreement

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