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A New Coastal Policy?
Coastal management not only crosses the ocean-land interface, it reaches across geographic and jurisdictional boundaries. Consequently,...


Perspectives, Knowledge & Policy for Coastal Inundation Management
WA Coastal Inundation Assessment was undertaken to help the Western Australian Government develop a strategic approach to challenges...


Decisions without Knowledge
Making decisions for coastal engineering, planning or management involves second-guessing how the coast might change in the future. How...


A Blinkered View of Adapting to Recession
Decision-making about coastal adaptation is being made with increasingly complex tools, including economic analysis. However, the...


Through the Looking Glass
Coastal Management Decision Making Coastal management plans are typically supported by decision-making tools, that are intended to focus...


The Safe, the Brave & the Stupid
Further illustration of the issue at Cua Dai Beach: Development of hotels at the southern end of Hoi An was undertaken after a rapid...


One Criterion to Rule Them All
In the early 2000s, there was discussion about movement away from 'safety standard' design in coastal engineering towards reliability...


Coastal Monitoring & Decision Making
Increased use of adaptive coastal management implicitly requires more coastal monitoring. However, in the past, few monitoring programs...


The Changing Face of Coastal Management
Progressive shifts in coastal management can be related to both increasing development pressure and greater acknowledgement of a dynamic...


WA Coastal Erosion Hotspots
Strategic assessment of coastal erosion hotspots was undertaken to support the WA Government's coastal management program. For the full...
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