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Fröhle, P., Kohlhase, S.. The role of Coastal Engineering in Integrated Coastal Zone Management. In: Schernewski, G., Löser, N. (eds.). BaltCoast 2004 - Managing the Baltic Sea. Coastline Reports (2), pp. 167-173. 2004.

Zusammenfassung:

Wide parts of coastal areas were used by humans from time immemorial, in Germany since more than 1000 years. Nowadays, coastal zones are utilized for various purposes e.g. human settlements especially in towns and villages, agriculture, aquaculture, human recreation, handling of goods, industrial and commercial development, energy generation, nature preservation and preservation of cultural heritage, which can be – more or less – summarized as “human activities in the coastal zone”. The development of the human activities in the coastal zone is strongly related to the development of coastal protection and the construction of flood protection structures e.g. dwelling mounds, dykes and dyke openings. All those constructions were designed and built up with the support of -now called- coastal engineers. Coastal engineers (and their predecessors) were coastal zone managers long before the term “coastal zone management” was coined. With the by and by  change in the use of the coasts, the demand for an overall management of the coastal zone arose, including administrative-, socio-economic-, biological-, regional development-, regional planning-, civil engineering- and coastal engineering aspects. Since the functional and constructional design of all coastal structures are performed by coastal engineers, and the assessment of the possible development (appearance) of the coast is impossible without the knowledge and work of coastal engineers, coastal engineering plays an important role for the management of coastal stretches.

 
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