Capitolo

Experiences with beach nourishments on the coast of Alicante, Spain

  • José Ignacio Pagán
  • Isabel López
  • Luis Aragonés
  • Antonio J. Tenza-Abril

The historical evolution of sandy beaches on the coast of Alicante (Spain) has been analysed from aerial images from 1956 to 2019. The beach nourishments carried out in the 1990s to avoid coastal damages and to improve the touristic offer were studied. Shoreline evolution and beach surface has been obtained using GIS. The change of the sediment composition, from gravel to sand, due to the fills has caused a relevant imbalance. Beach nourishments failed its main aim of avoiding the shoreline erosion, causing environmental damages to the nearby Posidonia oceanica meadows.

  • Keywords:
  • Shoreline,
  • Beach nourishment,
  • Sediment change,
  • GIS,
  • Erosion,
  • Posidonia oceanica,
+ Mostra di più

José Ignacio Pagán

University of Alicante, Spain - ORCID: 0000-0002-2906-5604

Isabel López

University of Alicante, Spain - ORCID: 0000-0002-5723-3046

Luis Aragonés

University of Alicante, Spain - ORCID: 0000-0002-8999-064X

Antonio J. Tenza-Abril

University of Alicante, Spain - ORCID: 0000-0002-7883-6532

  1. Aragonés L., García-Barba J., García-Bleda E., López I., Serra J.C. (2015) - Beach nourishment impact on Posidonia oceanica: Case study of Poniente Beach (Benidorm, Spain), Ocean Engineering. 107, 1-12. DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2015.07.005
  2. Aragonés L., Pagán J.I., López M.P., García-Barba J. (2016) - The impacts of Segura River (Spain) channelization on the coastal seabed, Science of The Total Environment. 543, 493-504 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.11.058
  3. Bruun P. (1988) - Profile nourishment: its background and economic advantages, Journal of Coastal Research 4(2), 219-228. DOI: 10.2307/4297397
  4. Chiva L., Pagán J.I., López I., Tenza-Abril A.J., Aragonés L., Sánchez I. (2018) - The effects of sediment used in beach nourishment: Study case El Portet de Moraira beach, Science of The Total Environment. 628-629, 64-73. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.02.042
  5. Davison A.T., Nicholls R.J., Leatherman S.P. (1992) - Beach nourishment as a coastal management tool: An annotated bibliography on developments associated with the artificial nourishment of beaches, Journal Coastal Research. 8, 984-1022.
  6. Dean R.G. (1998) - Beach nourishment: a limited review and some recent results, Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1998, Vollume, pp. 45-69. DOI: 10.1061/9780784404119.003
  7. Dean R.G., Beach nourishment: Theory and practice, in Advanced Series on Ocean Engineering. 2003. p. 21-70. DOI: 10.1142/9789812791412_0003
  8. Dean R.G., Dalrymple R.A. (2002) - Coastal processes with engineering applications, Cambridge University Press. 475.
  9. Dolan R., Fenster M.S., Holme S.J. (1991) - Temporal analysis of shoreline recession and accretion, Journal of coastal research. 723-744.
  10. Houston J.R. (1995) - Beach replenishment, Shore and Beach. 63, 21-24.
  11. Jiménez J.A., Gracia V., Valdemoro H.I., Mendoza E.T., Sánchez-Arcilla A. (2011) - Managing erosion-induced problems in NW Mediterranean urban beaches, Ocean & Coastal Management. 54 (12), 907-918. DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2011.05.003
  12. Kana T.W., United States: South Carolina–soft engineering beach restoration, P. Lewis, Editor. 1996: Boca Raton, FL. p. 622-626
  13. Kriebel D.L., Storm erosion and sea level rise considerations for beach nourishment, L.S. Tait, Editor. 1988. p. 139-150.
  14. López I., López M., Aragonés L., García-Barba J., López M.P., Sánchez I. (2016) - The erosion of the beaches on the coast of Alicante: Study of the mechanisms of weathering by accelerated laboratory tests, Science of The Total Environment. 566-567, 191-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.05.026
  15. López M., López I., Aragonés L., Serra J.C., Esteban V. (2016) - The erosion on the east coast of Spain: Wear of particles, mineral composition, carbonates and Posidonia oceanica, Science of the Total Environment. 572, 487-497. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.08.076
  16. López M., Pagán J.I., López I., Aragonés L., Tenza-Abril A.J., García-Barba J. (2017) - Factors Influencing The Retreat Of The Coastline, International Journal of Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements. 5, 741-749. DOI: 10.2495/CMEM-V5-N5-741-749
  17. Pagán J.I., Aragonés L., Tenza-Abril A.J., Pallarés P. (2016) - The influence of anthropic actions on the evolution of an urban beach: Case study of Marineta Cassiana beach, Spain, Science of The Total Environment. 559, 242-255. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.134
  18. Pagán J.I., Bañón L., López I., Bañón C., Aragonés L. (2019) - Monitoring the dune-beach system of Guardamar del Segura (Spain) using UAV, SfM and GIS techniques, Science of The Total Environment. 687, 1034-1045. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.186
  19. Pagán J.I., López I., Aragonés L., García-Barba J. (2017) - The effects of the anthropic actions on the sandy beaches of Guardamar del Segura, Spain, Science of The Total Environment. 601-602, 1364-1377. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.05.272
  20. Pagán J.I., López I., Bañón L., Aragonés L. (2020) - Consequences of Anthropic Actions in Cullera Bay (Spain), Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 8 (4), 240. DOI: 10.3390/jmse8040240
  21. Pagán J.I., López I., Tenza-Abril A.J., Aragonés L., Villacampa Y. (2018) - Urban growth and beach nourishment: Experiences on the coast of Alicante, Spain, WIT Transactions on the Built Environment. 179, 93-102.
  22. Pagán J.I., López M., López I., Tenza-Abril A.J., Aragonés L. (2018) - Causes of the different behaviour of the shoreline on beaches with similar characteristics. Study case of the San Juan and Guardamar del Segura beaches, Spain, Science of The Total Env DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.01.015
  23. Pagán J.I., López M., López I., Tenza-Abril A.J., Aragonés L. (2018) - Study of the evolution of gravel beaches nourished with sand, Science of The Total Environment. 626, 87-95. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.04.037
  24. Roberts J., Jepsen R., Gotthard D., Lick W. (1998) - Effects of particle size and bulk density on erosion of quartz particles, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. 124 (12), 1261-1267. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9429(1998)124:12(1261)
PDF
  • Anno di pubblicazione: 2020
  • Pagine: 441-450

XML
  • Anno di pubblicazione: 2020

Informazioni sul capitolo

Titolo del capitolo

Experiences with beach nourishments on the coast of Alicante, Spain

Autori

José Ignacio Pagán, Isabel López, Luis Aragonés, Antonio J. Tenza-Abril

Lingua

English

DOI

10.36253/978-88-5518-147-1.44

Opera sottoposta a peer review

Anno di pubblicazione

2020

Copyright

© 2020 Author(s)

Licenza d'uso

CC BY 4.0

Licenza dei metadati

CC0 1.0

Informazioni bibliografiche

Titolo del libro

Eighth International Symposium “Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas. Problems and Measurement Techniques”

Sottotitolo del libro

Livorno (Italy) June 2020

Curatori

Laura Bonora, Donatella Carboni, Matteo De Vincenzi

Opera sottoposta a peer review

Anno di pubblicazione

2020

Copyright

© 2020 Author(s)

Licenza d'uso

CC BY 4.0

Licenza dei metadati

CC0 1.0

Editore

Firenze University Press

DOI

10.36253/978-88-5518-147-1

eISBN (pdf)

978-88-5518-147-1

eISBN (xml)

978-88-5518-148-8

Collana

Proceedings e report

ISSN della collana

2704-601X

e-ISSN della collana

2704-5846

363

Download dei libri

371

Visualizzazioni

Salva la citazione

1.383

Libri in accesso aperto

in catalogo

2.567

Capitoli di Libri

4.133.292

Download dei libri

4.947

Autori

da 1047 Istituzioni e centri di ricerca

di 66 Nazioni

69

scientific boards

da 368 Istituzioni e centri di ricerca

di 43 Nazioni

1.300

I referee

da 393 Istituzioni e centri di ricerca

di 38 Nazioni