In the past few decades, huge surges and waves generated during tsunami events have caused devastating destruction to both onshore offshore infrastructures, seriously threatening safety intactness of coastal communities around world. As one most important protection a seawall can effectively reduce impact intensity waves, thus playing vital role in protecting regions. Most previous studies syst...

Globally the coastal zone is suffering the collateral damage from continuing urban development and construction, expanding resource sectors, increasing population, regulation to river flow, and on-going land change and degradation. While protection of natural coastal habitat is recommended, balancing conservation with human services is now the challenge for managers. Marine infrastructure such ...

T he early 1970s witnessed dramatic change in per-capita output and labor-productivity growth rates in the United States. These growth rates averaged 2.2 percent and 2.0 percent, respectively, for the 1950–1969 period compared to 1.3 percent and 0.8 percent for the 1970–1989 period. Aschauer (1989) advances the idea that an important explanatory factor in this productivity slowdown is the gover...

Comprehensive analyses of governance processes and stakeholder perceptions of beach management in Florida and many other coastal areas are lacking. Based on exploratory interviews and literature reviews, a survey instrument was administered that quantitatively queried seven primary stakeholder groups on fundamental issues regarding the management of Florida's beaches. Stakeholders expressed com...

Since the mid-1960s, Singapore’s coral reefs have been impacted by a variety of anthropogenic disturbances such as coastal development, land reclamation and seabed dredging. Up to 60% of reefs have since been lost, and the remaining ones are more compact and shallow due to chronic sedimentation and unstable bottom rubble that is easily moved about by currents. Since the late 1980s, various atte...

Onshore wind can significantly affect wave overtopping process and increase mean discharge. Thus, the should be an important variable in coastal design process. However, despite many researches have analyzed influence of on overtopping, there is still a lack exhaustive knowledge about this phenomenon. To further analyze effects, CFD model FLOW-3D has been used to investigate at vertical seawall...

Abstract Observers have long debated how societies should invest resources to safeguard citizens and property, especially in the face of increasing shocks crises. This article explores social infrastructure – spaces places that help build maintain ties trust, allowing coordinate behavior plays an important role our communities, mitigating recovering from shocks. An analysis quantitative data on...