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.

 

"SOFT SHORE PROTECTION" is now a recognised branch of Coastal Engineering Science. In the Summary for Policymakers the UNITED NATION INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL for CLIMATE CHANGE, WG II, remarks that

". . . adaptation strategies sifted away from hard protection structures (e.g., seawalls, groins) toward soft protection measures . . ."

United Nations, Summary for Policymakers, February 2001,  (visit http://www.usgcrp.gov/ipcc/wg2spm.pdf for more)

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.

 

Enjoy your visit of this site and e-mail to us your views: goudasconstantine@hotmail.com or stud-mec@otenet.gr.

 

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. See details of "How to Obtain the Proceedings" in the Contents.

 

And remember that "Man masters nature not by force but by understanding" (Jacob Bronowski, 1908-74).