Contents of:

SANDPIT: SAND TRANSPORT AND MORPHOLOGY OF OFFSHORE SAND MINING PITS (2005); Hardbound book; 700 pages


PART I:   SUMMARY OF PROJECT RESULTS

1.   INTRODUCTION AND STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Sand mining problems; Science in support of coastal management; Sandpit Project

2.   MANAGEMENT QUESTIONS, RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND METHODOLOGY
Project methodology; Basic Coastal Zone Management problem and context; Optimum design of large-scale sand mining; Context of sand mining; Coastal Zone Management questions and indicators; Formulation of research questions; Information strategy

3.   NATIONAL PRACTICES AND REGULATIONS
Introduction;Overview of regulation; Typical studies to be done

4.   STATE OF THE ART REVIEW: PROCESSES AND PREDICTION MODELS
Introduction; Bed forms and sediment transport in laboratory conditions; Bed forms and sediment transport in field conditions; Dynamics (flow, waves and morphology) of pits; Prediction models of bed forms, sand transport and morphology; Overview and results of existing pit studies; Definition of existing benchmarking data sets of pit morphology; References

5.   NEW LABORATORY AND FIELD DATA RESULTS
Introduction; New laboratory data sets; New field data sets; Laboratory data  results; Field data results; Conclusions

6.   RESEARCH MODELLING RESULTS
Introduction; Occurrence of bed forms in coastal seas; Bed roughness; Sandtransport; Morphological modelling research

7.   PRACTICAL RESULTS AND  ANSWERS TO MANAGEMENT QUESTIONS
Introduction; Annual transport rates and sediment budgets in coastal regions; Near-field effects of pits in flat bed coastal regions; Far-field effects of pits in flat bed coastal region; Near-field and far-field effects of pits in sand bank regions; Optimum locations and dimensions of pits in coastal regions; Effects of aggregate extraction on ecological processes

8.   EFFECTS OF OFFSHORE MINING OF SEDIMENT: GUIDELINES FOR QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES
Qualitative estimates of effects; Quantitative estimate of effects

9.   LIST OF PUBLICATIONS FROM SANDPIT PROJECT

ANNEXES of PART I

Annex 1:   Overview of new laboratory and field data    
Annex 2:   ICES guidelines for the management of marine sediment extraction
Annex 3:   Glossary of physical and engineering terms used in the sandpit project


PART II:   DETAILED SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL RESULTS

work package 2:   Guidelines and tools (12 papers)
work package 3:   Laboratory,  field experiments and data sets (14 papers)
work package 4:   Predictive tools (25 papers)



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