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1999
662 sitasi
Environmental engineering
T. Lincoln
Abstrak
A classic example of how human intervention in natural processes can have severe unforeseen side-effects comes from the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Coastal armouring structures, designed to prevent shoreline erosion, do indeed do that. But erosional forces instead become concentrated on the beaches in front of them, and the beaches no longer have the continual renewal of sandy substrate from sources locked into the shoreline. About 27 per cent of Oahu's 115 kilometres of beaches have been lost or severely affected in this way over the past 27 years.
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Informasi Jurnal
- Tahun Terbit
- 1999
- Bahasa
- en
- Total Sitasi
- 662×
- Sumber Database
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI
- 10.1038/40285
- Akses
- Open Access ✓