Center for Coastal & Marine Studies
Knowledge for a sustainable Europe
A snapshot from the European Environment Agency, September 2019
This briefing is based on a range of EEA and Eionet work, and is intended to provide parliamentarians and the European Commission with a selection of key insights on the challenges for environmental sustainability.
Read the briefing here!
COASTAL ZONE 2019 CONFERENCE: "SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF COASTAL ECOSYSTEM - A GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY"
The International Conference on Coastal Ecosystem and Management scheduled on September 16-17, 2019 at Amsterdam, Netherlands includes prompt keynote presentations, oral talks, poster presentations, and exhibitions.
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.
