Download or read book Beaches written by J. Hardisty and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1990-12-31 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book places research into worldwide beach environments in its geomorphological context. Having introduced the systems approach to environmental modelling, and identified the groups of processes operating on beaches, the text is structured in five parts: the first three sections provide a sequential account of the effects of these processes on the beach system; part four focuses on theory relevant to landform stability, then reviews existing empirical, analytical and numerical models; and the final section introduces a computer model and shows its application to the process functions developed earlier.