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WELCOME TO SOFT SHORE PROTECTION PAGES Welcome to the Soft Shore Protection Web Site. It presents the efforts of many scientists ans engineers to discover an environmentally harmless and technically efficient category of methods that provide protection to eroding shores. Below you see an example of such a system, by no means the best, installed at the beach Therma of Lesvos island, Greece. An international Conference, the first of its kind worldwide, entitled "SOFT SHORE PROTECTION", was organized between 18 to 22 October 2000, as forum for presentation of theories and practices of soft nature aiming at protection of eroding shores. Organizations and Conferences on Coastal Processes and Oceanography, are hosting in their activities and programmes soft shore protection techniques, but not exclusively. Thus, the Proceedings of this Conference, available now to all, constitute the first and single conglomeration of what is presently known in this subject. The editors of the Proceedings, out of duty underline the fact that contributors, whose names follow, include, besides novices, the "fathers" of coastal engineering and science, of both hard and soft methods. If you want to read more, then ORDER a copy of the PROCEEDINGS using the e-mail addresses. The price/copy is $50 plus $5 mailing charge. And remember that "Man masters nature not by force but by understanding" (Jacob Bronowski, 1908-74). No profit, but some passion, is involved in this effort of many people. The prize is only an effective technological arragment that will serve man and nature without undesirable side effects. Select now the rest of the pages. Prof. C. L. Goudas, Conference Chairman |
