Chapter Experiences with beach nourishments on the coast of Alicante, Spain

• Tác giả: Luis Aragonés, Isabel López Úbeda, José Ignacio Pagán, Antonio José Tenza-Abril
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-8855181471
• ISBN: 9788855181471.44
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 551.457091638 Geomorphology and hydrosphere
• Thông tin xuất bản: Florence : Firenze University Press, 2020
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (10 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 242449

Tóm tắt

The historical evolution of sandy beaches on the coast of Alicante (Spain) has been analysed from aerial images from 1956 to 2019. The beach nourishments carried out in the 1990s to avoid coastal damages and to improve the touristic offer were studied. Shoreline evolution and beach surface has been obtained using GIS. The change of the sediment composition, from gravel to sand, due to the fills has caused a relevant imbalance. Beach nourishments failed its main aim of avoiding the shoreline erosion, causing environmental damages to the nearby Posidonia oceanica meadows.