Bridges are ‘masterworks’ of civil engineering, requiring structural, geotechnical, hydraulic and traffic engineering to come together....

Unreliably stable, 'soft' rock shores are sometimes neglected from coastal zone policy, and have a playbook of obscure, sometimes contradictory science. A coast-type often suffering from 'esoteric' management, I have seen: policy unable to discriminate between soft rock and sandy shores. counter-productive upper slope stabilisation, and massive revetment construction when a bit of drainage probably would have done the trick... Following Chris Sharples' terminology, soft rock