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Table of Contents - Special Paper 460America’s Most Vulnerable Coastal CommunitiesEdited by Joseph T. Kelley, Orrin H. Pilkey, and J. Andrew G. Cooper |
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1. | Camp Ellis, Maine: A small beach community with a big problem … its jetty Joseph T. Kelley and Laura L. Brothers |
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2. | Balancing natural processes and competing uses on a transgressive barrier, Duxbury Beach, Massachusetts Peter S. Rosen, Duncan M. FitzGerald, and Ilya V. Buynevich |
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3. | A case study on the effects of coastal engineering structures and beach restoration methods after storms, Westhampton Beach, Long Island, New York Nicholas K. Coch |
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4. | Eye of a human hurricane: Pea Island, Oregon Inlet, and Bodie Island, northern Outer Banks, North Carolina Stanley R. Riggs, Dorothea V. Ames, Stephen J. Culver, David J. Mallinson, D. Reide Corbett, and John P. Walsh |
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5. | North Topsail Beach, North Carolina: A model for maximizing coastal hazard vulnerability Orrin H. Pilkey and William J. Neal |
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6. | Folly Beach, South Carolina: An endangered barrier island Norman Levine, Charles Kaufman, Michael Katuna, Scott Harris, and Mitchell Colgan |
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7. | A history of poor economic and environmental renourishment decisions in Broward County, Florida Harold R. Wanless |
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8. | Continued redevelopment of the west end of Dauphin Island, Alabama — A policy review George F. Crozier |
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9. | Hurricane Rita and the destruction of Holly Beach, Louisiana: Why the chenier plain is vulnerable to storms Asbury H. Sallenger, C.W. Wright, Kara Doran, Kristy Guy, and Karen Morgan |
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10. | Natural versus anthropogenic mechanisms of erosion along the upper Texas coast Davin J. Wallace, John B. Anderson, and Antonio B. Rodriguez |
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11. | Summary of Puerto Rico’s vulnerability to coastal hazards: Risk, mitigation, and management with examples David M. Bush, William J. Neal, and Chester W. Jackson |
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12. | Bad beach management: European perspectives J.A.G. Cooper, G. Anfuso, and L. Del Rio |
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