Beach Management Tools: Concepts, Methodologies and Case Studies

This book provides an overview of beach management tools, such as carrying capacity, beach nourishment, environmental and tourism awards (like Blue Flag or others), bathing water quality, zoning, beach typologies, quality index, user's perception, interdisciplinary beach monitoring, coastal legislation, shore protection, social and economic indicators, ecosystem services, coastal governance (applied in beach's case studies), among others.

Beaches are one of the most intensely used coastal ecosystems and are responsible for more than a half of tourism incomes on the world. Therefore, this book will introduce beach managers to a wide range of state-of-the-art tools that can be used to deal with a many different types of beach challenges. Each chapter features specific types of tools that can be applied to advantage in beach management practices. The scope of this volume is global with specific examples from local and regional case studies along the world’s coastlines.