Monitoring morphological evolution of Perd'e Sali beach, Italy

The paper reports on the evolution of an eroding beach on the southern coast of Sardinia, Italy (Perd'e Sali Beach). An account is given first of the historic development of the beach as related to the action of man, including uncontrolled urban development and empirical protection practices, as well as rational structural measures, by comparison with results of monitoring surveys. An attempt will then be made of explaining the development of the beach after each of the major changes it underwent, through numerical simulation of near-shore hydrodynamics