Dr M Barrett

Price: £ 32.50

ISBN: 9780727719041

Format: Hardbound

Publish Date: 30/03/1993

Publisher: Thomas Telford Ltd

Page Size: 234x156mm

Number of Pages: 327

Description

The objective of coastal management is the preservation of coastal resources whilst simultaneously satisfying the sometimes conflicting interests and requirements of protection, development, usage and conservation. Given the ever increasing awareness of coastal planning and management on an integrated basis this volume compounds the general change in perspective.

Contents

• Setting the scene
  
• Pressures on the zone
  
• Costal heritage
  
• Development pressures
  
• Framework for planning and management
  
• Planning options in response to change
  
• Engineering sympathetic solutions
  
• Case Studies
  
• Conclusions