The Spanish Coastal Systems
Dynamic Processes, Sediments and Management
Samenvatting
This monograph presents the state of art of the geologic knowledge about the Spanish coast obtained through scientific research in the last 30 years.From a general point of view, coasts are the most quickly changing systems of the Earth. This is critical, since many human resources, such as the main part of economic and social activities, are located in the coastal areas. Especially in the case of Spain these coasts include cities, wide industrial areas (including harbor complexes), important ecologic systems, and our main economic resource: tourism. Understanding the dynamic functioning of each element of this coast is vital for correct future coastal management, so as to solve problems derived from bad plans developed in the last decades of the twentieth century.
This is a valuable text for advanced graduate students and coastal researchers, which connects the specific dynamic functioning of the main Spanish coastal environments and their relationships with human activities.
Specificaties
Inhoudsopgave
<p>Dynamic processes, sediments and management.</p>
<p>1. Introducing the Spanish Coast.</p>
J.A. Morales<p></p>
<p>PART I. ROCKY COASTS AND CLIFFS</p>
<p>2. The northern rocky coast.</p>
<p>A. Pérez-Alberti</p>
3. Rocky coast in Catalonia.<p></p>
<p>I. Montoya</p>
<p>4. Rocky coasts in the Balearic Islands.</p>
<p>G. Pons-Buades</p>
<p>5. Littoral endokarst from the Balearic Islands.</p>
<p>J.J. fornós</p>
6. The clifss of Gibraltar.<p></p>
<p>J. Rodríguez-Vidal</p>
<p>7. Volcanic coasts in Canary Islands.</p>
J. Mangas<p></p>
<p> PART II. LINEAL SANDY COASTS AND BEACHES</p>
<p>8. Beaches from Galicia.</p>
<p>R. Blanco-Chao</p>
9. Beaches from Catalonia.<p></p>
<p>J. Serra</p>
<p>10. Beaches from Valencia.</p>
<p>J. Alcántara</p>
<p>11. Coastal lagoons in the Mediterranean Coast.</p>
<p>¿?</p>
12. Barrier Islands of the Cadiz Bay.<p></p>
<p>J. M. Gutierrez-Mas</p>
<p>13. Beaches of the Gibraltar Strait.</p>
<p>J. Benavente and L. Del Río</p>
<p>14. Beaches from Huelva.</p>
<p>J.A. Morales</p>
<p>PART III. FLUVIO MARINE SYSTEMS</p>
15. Rias from Galicia.<p></p>
<p>F. Vilas</p>
<p>16. Cantabrian estuaries.</p>
G. Flor<p></p>
<p>17. The Ebro Delta.</p>
<p>I. Rodríguez-Santalla</p>
<p>18. Fan-deltas from the Mediterranean Coast.</p>
<p>¿?</p>
<p>19. The Guadalquivir Estuary and marshes.</p>
<p>A. Rodríguez-Ramírez</p>
20. The Tinto-Odiel Estuary.<p></p>
<p>J. Borrego</p>
<p>21. The Guadiana Delta.</p>
J.A. Morales<p></p>
<p>PART IV. COASTAL DUNES</p>
<p>22. Coastal dunes from Asturias.</p>
<p>G. Flor-Blanco</p>
23. Coastal dunes in the Ebro Delta.<p></p>
<p>M.J. Sánchez-García</p>
<p>24. Dunes in the Gibraltar Strait.</p>
F.J. Gracia<p></p>
<p>25. Dunes in Doñana National Park.</p>
<p>I. Vallejo</p>
<p>26. Dunes in the Gibraltar Strait.</p>
<p>F.J. Gracia</p>
<p>27. Dunes in Canary Islands.</p>
<p>I. Alonso and L. Hernández-Calvento</p>
PART V. COAST-HUMAN INTERACTION PROBLEMS AND COASTAL MANAGEMENT<p></p>
<p>28. Coastal management in urban beaches from Catalonia.</p>
<p>J. Galofré</p>
29. Coastal management in the Balearic Islands.<p></p>
<p>X. Roig-Munar</p>
<p>30. Coastal management in the North Littoral.</p>
M. Monge<p></p>
<p>31. Coastal management in Andalousia.</p>
<p>G. Malvárez</p>
<p>32. Coastal management in the Canary Islands.</p>
<p>A. Yanes</p>