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Table of Contents - Special Paper 460

America’s Most Vulnerable Coastal Communities

Edited by Joseph T. Kelley, Orrin H. Pilkey, and J. Andrew G. Cooper

Preface		v
1.	Camp Ellis, Maine: A small beach community with a big problem … its jetty Joseph T. Kelley and Laura L. Brothers	1
2.	Balancing natural processes and competing uses on a transgressive barrier, Duxbury Beach, Massachusetts Peter S. Rosen, Duncan M. FitzGerald, and Ilya V. Buynevich	21
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	33
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	43
5.	North Topsail Beach, North Carolina: A model for maximizing coastal hazard vulnerability Orrin H. Pilkey and William J. Neal	73
6.	Folly Beach, South Carolina: An endangered barrier island Norman Levine, Charles Kaufman, Michael Katuna, Scott Harris, and Mitchell Colgan	91
7.	A history of poor economic and environmental renourishment decisions in Broward County, Florida Harold R. Wanless	111
8.	Continued redevelopment of the west end of Dauphin Island, Alabama — A policy review George F. Crozier	121
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	127
10.	Natural versus anthropogenic mechanisms of erosion along the upper Texas coast Davin J. Wallace, John B. Anderson, and Antonio B. Rodriguez	137
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	149
12.	Bad beach management: European perspectives J.A.G. Cooper, G. Anfuso, and L. Del Rio	167