Center for Coastal & Marine Studies
COASTAL CARE "BEACH OF THE MONTH": A MODEL OF SMALL COMMUNITY, BEACH LOSS, WRONG RESPONSES
The CCMS AC member Nelson Rangel-Buitrago is the main author of a recent study on Santa Veronica beach, Atlantico, Caribbean coast, Colombia, published in Coastal Care website, feature Beach of the Month.
Santa Veronica is one of numerous recreational beach developments along Colombia’s Caribbean Coast most sharing a similar history of shoreline retreat, perceived as shoreline erosion, and the attempt to hold the shoreline in place through the use of shore-hardening structures.
Coastal Hazards & Targeted Acquisitions: A Reasonable Shoreline Management Alternative
North Topsail Beach, North Carolina Case Study
This recently published study is the first of several case studies to be released by the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines (PSDS), directed by Prof. Robert Young, one of the CCMS AC members.
Report of the First Global Planning Meeting on the UN Decade is available to read!
The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO released the Summary Report of the First Global Planning Meeting for the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.
The UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to focus international efforts at the science-policy interface to reverse the cycle of decline in ocean health and to improve conditions for sustainable development of the ocean.
The July 2019 Newsletter of the IGU CCS has been released and ready to read!
The CCS Newsletter is issued twice a year and highlights the activities of the Commission on Coastal Systems (CCS) to the International Geographical Union (IGU) and its members from around the globe. Copies of the Newsletter and announcements are on the CCS website: http://www.igu-ccs.org/.
The July 2019 CCS Newsletter can be read also here!
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