As long ago in the past as we can investigate through local chronicles, it is over-testified that the coastline, in the vicinity of La Coubre point, where Atlantic and Gironde meet, moves sea or landward at rates reaching 10 to 100 m a year. Once submitted only to oceanic and estuarian factors, this area also depends upon human intervention : main access channel to Gironde dredged after 1932 and coastal defenses built in the frontshore of an important resort center after 1965. The 20 year balance of decisions taken to manage this site results in a contrasted picture : a background of deterministic evolution, able to be forecast (and yet arising difficult problems) may be altered by low probability events imposing sudden changes, and uneas...
The cliffed shore between the Baie de Seine and the Baie de Somme is locally cut by deep valleys for...
The dynamic evolution ot the West Cotentin estuaries, France Eight small estuaries are encountered ...
At present, the forecasting of littoral evolution presents a considerable social stake. Many studies...
The coastal line fluctuates but the reactions of coastal populations facing these phenomenon are rar...
Recession of shoreline along the South West France coast. Notion of previsionai sedimentology During...
International audienceThe Arvert peninsula, between the south of the island of Oléron and the Girond...
La pointe ou presqu’île d’Avert, entre le sud de l’île d’Oléron et l’estuaire de la Gironde, présent...
The position of Charente coast line, which has always fluctuated since the flandrian rise, is retrea...
French shore general view about impacts of various kinds of improvments. Rules of improvment About...
SUMMARY The shoreline sand-bar of the Moutiers results from a « poulier », which develops into an o...
The Atlantic coast of the Gharb, whose territorial development remained long sluggish, is in recent ...
The urban development of the Minimes peninsula in La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime, France) during the...
Abstract. - The study of the camarguese coastal changes in the mouth area is carried out using diach...
Since 1949, efforts done to protect the coastline from erosion result in the development of increasi...
ABSTRACT The study deals with the evolution of shoreline. It appears that human activities — especi...
The cliffed shore between the Baie de Seine and the Baie de Somme is locally cut by deep valleys for...
The dynamic evolution ot the West Cotentin estuaries, France Eight small estuaries are encountered ...
At present, the forecasting of littoral evolution presents a considerable social stake. Many studies...
The coastal line fluctuates but the reactions of coastal populations facing these phenomenon are rar...
Recession of shoreline along the South West France coast. Notion of previsionai sedimentology During...
International audienceThe Arvert peninsula, between the south of the island of Oléron and the Girond...
La pointe ou presqu’île d’Avert, entre le sud de l’île d’Oléron et l’estuaire de la Gironde, présent...
The position of Charente coast line, which has always fluctuated since the flandrian rise, is retrea...
French shore general view about impacts of various kinds of improvments. Rules of improvment About...
SUMMARY The shoreline sand-bar of the Moutiers results from a « poulier », which develops into an o...
The Atlantic coast of the Gharb, whose territorial development remained long sluggish, is in recent ...
The urban development of the Minimes peninsula in La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime, France) during the...
Abstract. - The study of the camarguese coastal changes in the mouth area is carried out using diach...
Since 1949, efforts done to protect the coastline from erosion result in the development of increasi...
ABSTRACT The study deals with the evolution of shoreline. It appears that human activities — especi...
The cliffed shore between the Baie de Seine and the Baie de Somme is locally cut by deep valleys for...
The dynamic evolution ot the West Cotentin estuaries, France Eight small estuaries are encountered ...
At present, the forecasting of littoral evolution presents a considerable social stake. Many studies...