Beaches are the most important geomorphological features of a Coastal state. Kerala is well endowed with its natural bounty and could ascend to the world tourism map because of its beaches, despite its poor infrastructure. The Kerala sea walls are, however, constructed just by stacking up all the boulders even without estimating the durability of these structures and their ability to withstand the wave energy. The fact remains that these structures built along the coast, in fact, augment the process of coastal erosion.
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The Indian coastline is eroding, slowly but steadily. A recent study says about 23 percent of shoreline along the Indian mainland is affected by erosion. Orissa, with its long coastline is no exception. In case of Orissa, erosion is noticed at Gopalpur, Paradip, Satabhaya. The study also reveals that the growth of long sand pits at Chilika indicates a movement of littoral sediment and subsequent deposition.
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Coastal erosion is caused by the input of the wave energy to the coastal zone. This wave energy could result in sedimentation or erosion along the coastline. One of the areas reported to experience this problem is the coastline of Kuala Terengganu. The aim of this study is to develop system to predict the coastal erosion. Mathematical model was carried out to investigate and predict the erosion. This model utilized several types of data, including remotely sensed data, ship observations and ground truth data.
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The Department of Natural Resources has done numerous studies and find dense Christmas trees are the only thing recommended to use on coastlines.
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Coastal planners around the world are underestimating how much beaches could erode when global warming raises sea levels, says an Australian scientist.
URL: http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1510089.htm

Post-tsunami field surveys of the Maldives Islands where carried out to document the effects of the tsunami inundation. The study area was situated in the islands of South Male Atoll that were some of the most heavily damaged islands of the Maldive Islands. The tsunami damaged the natural environment, vegetation, man-made structures, and residents.
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Engineers who were studying beach erosion got more than they bargained for recently when they discovered unexpected wave behavior in the water along an east coast shoreline.
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SAARC Meteorological Research Centre (SMRC) report 8 discusses on the issues like: Maldives an Island nation, Oceanic islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, The sea surface temperature (SST), The el niño southern oscillation (enso), Though tropical storms under this report.
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SAARC Meteorological Research Centre (SMRC) Report 7 deals with various issues like: Long term trends in sea level along the Indian coast, Enso modes of interannual variability of sea level along the Indian coasts, Relationship between sea level and sea surface temperature, Sea level variability in relation to the summer monsoon, Predictability of sea level along the Indian coast.
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Orrin H. Pilkey and J. Andrew G. Cooper in their article in Science, Vol 303, Issue 5665, 1781-1782 , 19 March 2004 indicate that most of the world's shorelines are in a state of erosion. They use "Bruun's rule" for predicting the erosion, etc. But the Bruun rule is to be used as an alternative to observations in cases where no data exist or only under a limited range of environmental circumstances (such as uniform sandy shorefaces with no rock or mud outcrops). They further advocate recognition, and acceptance as fact, that we cannot accurately predict shoreline retreat related to sea level rise and suggest instead that predictions be based on extrapolation of past rates combined with an "expert eye".
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