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Isolation, Insularity and Resilience: A Review of the Geophysical, Socioeconomic, and Environmental Vulnerabilities of Gran Canaria and Lesvos Islands for Policy Interventions to Global Change

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The dynamic nature of small islands being geographically isolated and their perceived connectedness with global networks complicates research attempts to draw general conclusions on whether insularity leads to marginalization or strengthens their resilience for sustainable development.
Toheeb Lekan Jolaosho, Mazen Marouani, Takwa Boughanmi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Morpho‑ecological characterization of the peniche‑baleal dune system (portuguese west coast)

Finisterra - Revista Portuguesa de Geografia, 2013
the Peniche‑Baleal coastal dune system has a strategic importance on regional development, marked by considerable investment in tourism and recreational sectors.
Raquel Paixão
doaj  

Full-Waveform LiDAR Pixel Analysis for Low-Growing Vegetation Mapping of Coastal Foredunes in Western France

Remote Sensing, 2018
The monitoring of coastal sand dunes requires regular high-resolution aerial photography along hundreds of kilometers of coastal strips. Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is now the most widely used method for detailed topographic and vegetation ...
Patrick Launeau, Manuel Giraud, Antoine Ba, Saïd Moussaoui, Marc Robin, Françoise Debaine, Dimitri Lague, Erwan Le Menn   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Coastal Dune Restoration: Trends and Perspectives [PDF]

, 2013
Sandy coasts are distributed worldwide and they are all heterogeneous ecosystems in terms of morphology, vegetation, and dynamics. Psammophytes are common in these environments.
M. Luisa Martínez, Patrick A. Hesp and Juan B. Gallego-Fernández, Martínez, María Luisa (Coordinador)   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Behavior of manufactured sand and recycled coarse aggregate concrete‐filled steel tubular stub columns with circular section

Structural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract Accelerated urbanization has intensified environmental concerns due to excessive natural resource consumption and construction waste generation. Circular concrete‐filled steel tube (CFST) columns incorporating manufactured sand recycled coarse aggregate (MS‐RCA) concrete have emerged as an innovative composite element offering notable ...
Minsheng Guan, Qi Chen, Gang Wang, Aiguo Xiong, Ying Wang, Le Li, Anne W. M. Ng, Qing Quan Liang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

COASTAL DUNES: A STUDY OF THE DUNES AT VERA CRUZ

, 2011
Coastal dunes are formed when winds gather the dry sands from beaches and carry it inland. The repeated scouring of surface sand and its deposit in other areas does more to shape the diverse hillocks and depressions characteristic of certain coastal ...
Manuel Diaz Marta
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‘Reinventing’ the Beach? Lessons from a Local Development Plan in the French Riviera

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Coastal squeeze is now so tangible both globally and locally that the focus of scientific debate has expanded from the erosion of beaches to the risk of their disappearance. In this context, it is crucial to explore local development plans that aim to preserve the long‐term existence of a beach.
Isabelle Bruno, Grégory Salle
wiley   +1 more source

Application of the ERICA Integrated Approach to the Drigg coastal sand dunes

, 2008
The EC-funded project ‘Environmental Risks from Ionising Contaminants: Assessment and Management’ (ERICA) developed an ‘Integrated Approach’ for assessing the impact of ionising radiation on ecosystems.
Wood, M.D., Jones, Steve R, Copplestone, David, Beresford, N.A., Howard, Brenda J, Wood, Michael D, Leah, R.T., Marshall, William A, Marshall, W.A., Leah, Richard T, Beresford, Nicholas A, Copplestone, D., Howard, B.J., Jones, S.R.   +13 more
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‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
wiley   +1 more source

First records of the invasive plant Carpobrotus edulis from the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

Historia Naturalis Bulgarica
First observations in Bulgaria of Carpobrotus edulis from both sand dunes and coastal cliffs are presented in the current study. In 2024, first signs of naturalisation of C.
Chavdar Gussev, Magdalena Valcheva, Bogdan Prodanov   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source