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This book is based on the author's 49 years of experience as a practicing coastal engineer and 34 years as professor of coastal engineering and management at Queen's University. The book is therefore thoroughly practical in nature, but it also reflects newly relevant issues, such as consequences of failure, impacts of rising sea levels, aging infrastructure, real estate development, and contemporary decision making, design and education.
This textbook is useful for undergraduate students, postgraduate students and practicing engineers. It covers waves, structures, sediment movement, coastal management, and contemporary coastal design and decision making. It presents both basic principles and engineering solutions. It discusses the traditional methods of analysis and synthesis (design), but also contemporary design methodologies, such as working with environmental impacts.
The second edition expanded greatly on the topics of failure and resilience that surfaced as a result of recent disasters from hurricane surges and tsunamis. It updated the discussion of design and decision making for the 21st century, with many new examples.
This third edition develops some of these topics further, but its largest new changes is the chapter on climate change. This chapter presents the basics of climate change and then goes on to stress the practical implications of the impacts of climate change, focusing on what is of importance to coastal and fluvial specialists.
Sample Chapter(s)
Preface to 3rd Edition
Preface to 2nd Edition
Preface to 1st Edition
Chapter 1: Introduction
Contents:
- Introduction
- Water Waves
- Short-Term Wave Analysis
- Long-Term Wave Analysis
- Wave Generation
- Wave Transformation and Breaking
- Tides and Water Levels
- Rare Extraneous Events
- Design of Structures
- Breakwaters
- Introduction to Coastal Management
- Coastal Sediment Transport
- Basic Shore Processes
- Coastal Design
- One-Dimensional Modeling of Coastal Morphology
- Shore Protection
- Contemporary Concepts
- Climate, Climate Change and Climate Change Impacts
- Problems
Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and academics in coastal engineering and management.
