Postgraduate Studies Courses Hydraulic & Environmental Engineering for Sustainable Infrastructures
Coastal Zone Management and Protection
Instructor: Dimas Athanassios
Course code: B16111
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Course content:

  • Nearshore processes and environmental pressures on the coastal zone: nonlinear waves, wave boundary layer, sediment transport.
  • Coastal protection works: coastal effect and design principles of groins and breakwaters.
  • Anthropogenic pressures on the coastal zone.
  • Integrated coastal zone management.


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