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Erosion and ErosionControl of a Silt-Muddy Beach
In China, many large and middle rivers such as Yellow River, Yangtze River, Pearl River, Liaohe River carry a large amount of fine sand into the sea, this results in extensive silt-muddy...

Coastal Zone Management of Puerto Galera
This paper summarizes the efforts to reconcile the needs, problems, measures and programs in carrying out effectively the management of the coastal zone in Puerto Galera. To attain the...

The Role of Marine Parks Management in the Conservation of Philippine Coastal Resources
The government, recognizing the need to conserve coastal resources, created in 1977 the Marine Park Inter-Agency Task Force to prepare and supervise the implementation of a master plan...

Coastal Area Development and Offshore Man-Made Islands
With offshore man-made islands, it is necessary to make the aims of land use clear in terms of the various conditions, such as a severe environment and vast construction costs. As technological...

Study on Formation of Waterfront Community?Understanding Waterfront Space Characteristics
The effective development of the waterfront should optimize properties of the waterfront, resulting in activation of urban districts. For this purpose, rehabilitation of the district by...

Marine Resource Management in the Java Sea
The pressures on the resources of the southern Java Sea along the north coast of Java are probably greater than anywhere else in the country, and some of the resources have certainly suffered...

Erosion Control Measures and Beach Restoration Plan at the Niigata West Coast
This paper first presents the process of erosion and the history of control measures at the Niigata west coast. The paper further discusses an epoch-making shore protection and beach restoration...

Coastal Zone Management Plan Development in Malaysia: Issues and Possible Sollutions
Over the last few decades Malaysia has undergone fairly rapid rates of economic growth, characterised by high level of resource exploitation, without due consideration given to the environmental...

Utilization of Islands Off an Urban Waterfront: The Case of Singapore
The major oil refineries of Singapore are located on the Bukom and the Ayer Chawan groups of islands. Other southern islands have been exclusively developed for tourist and recreational...

Monitoring of Coastal Environment for its Management
The paper briefly explains the features of four coastal laboratories established along the southwest coast of India in 1980 and the data gathered by them during 1980-84. Four coastal piers...

Case Studies?Semi-Closed Pipeline Systems
The paper discusses the title subject in terms of automated systems, flexible scheduling, and system components. Project locations include the Mahaweli Development Project, Sri Lanka;...

Economic Analysis of Irrigation Rehabilitation Projects
This paper discusses the assessment of the costs and benefits of irrigation rehabilitation and modernization projects. It summarizes the methodology used at the World Bank to assess the...

Satellites Monitor Eutrophication of Estuaries
In a study on eutrophication of estuaries, NOAA/AVHRR satellite data have been analyzed for the Changjiang River plume and the adjacent coastal areas. The different regimes identified...

Comparison of Some River Discharge Calculation Methods
To measure the discharge of a river, it is necessary to develop a stage-discharge curve based on water velocity at various cross sections of the river. This is the method which is used...

Dimensional Analyses of Yellow River Sediment Data
A contemporaneous set of bed load and suspended load sediment transport data were analysed for three hydrologic stations on the Yellow River. There were a total of 82 bed load events,...

Methods for Specification and Verification of Hydraulic Design in a Turnkey Construction Contract
The project site is at the Hannibal Locks and Dam at New Martinsville, West Virginia. The existing project, a Corps of Engineers' (Corps) facility built in the 60's...

Future Directions on World Bank Irrigation Projects in India
Irrigation development in India is proceeding at a record rate and will continue for several decades. Experience, however, is showing that future directions must entail substantive emphasis...

The Inflatable Weir and Its Widespread Employment for Irrigation in Japan
Although introduced in the U. S. in the 1950's for groundwater recharging, the inflatable weir has become established only in Japan, in which case it is used almost entirely...

Measures Against Wind-Induced Vibrations of Bridges
The design of very flexible structures, such as long-span steel bridges, are frequently governed by wind-induced vibrations. This paper introduces the present situation of the cable-supported...

Analysis and Design of Wind- and Earthquake-Resistance of an S-Curved Cable-Stayed Bridge
Just recently, in January of 1987, the first S-curved cable-stayed bridge in the world has been completed as a part of Metropolitan Expressway's Katsushika-Edogawa Route in...

 

 

 

 

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