Coastal environments are arguably the most important and intensely used of all areas settled by humans. The coastline changes, not only over the centuries or decades but in a matter of hours and minutes. This rapid development applies both to the form of
Coastal systems; sea level; tides; waves; sediments, boundary layers and transport; fluvial-dominated coastal environments - deltas; tide-dominated coastal environments - estuaries; wave-dominated coastal environments - barriers; rocky coasts; coral reefs