<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The paper describes lithodynamic and morphodynamic processes occurring in the main part of the south-eastern Baltic coastal area, namely on the sea shores from the Vistula mouth in the Gulf of Gdansk to the Lithuanian-Latvian border. The study area is subject to intensive natural coastal changes, as well as shore evolution caused by anthropogenic impacts at several locations. Methods of coastal protection against erosion and shore stabilization systems applied in the past and currently are described. The paper deals with the causes of the dynamics of beach/dune shores and cliffs. It presents the authors’ field observations of 2010-2013, as well as previously gained knowledge and the results of Polish, Russian and joint Polish-Russian field surveys.</p></abstract>

The paper describes lithodynamic and morphodynamic processes occurring in the main part of the south-eastern Baltic coastal area, namely on the sea shores from the Vistula mouth in the Gulf of Gdansk to the Lithuanian-Latvian border. The study area is subject to intensive natural coastal changes, as well as shore evolution caused by anthropogenic impacts at several locations. Methods of coastal protection against erosion and shore stabilization systems applied in the past and currently are described. The paper deals with the causes of the dynamics of beach/dune shores and cliffs. It presents the authors’ field observations of 2010-2013, as well as previously gained knowledge and the results of Polish, Russian and joint Polish-Russian field surveys.

Condition of South-Eastern Baltic Sea Shores and Methods of Protecting Them

Institute of Hydro-Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Koscierska 7, 80-328 Gdansk, Poland

Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Atlantic Branch in Kaliningrad (AB IO RAS), Prospect Mira 1, 236000 Kaliningrad, Russia

Archives of Hydro-Engineering and Environmental Mechanics

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The paper describes lithodynamic and morphodynamic processes occurring in the main part of the south-eastern Baltic coastal area, namely on the sea shores from...

Condition of South-Eastern Baltic Sea Shores and Methods of Protecting Them

Published Online: Oct 07, 2015

Page range: 17 - 37

Received: Mar 03, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/heem-2015-0002

© by Rafał Ostrowski

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