Introduction
1. Pitfalls of Shoreline Stabilisation - Tweed River Mouth, Gold Coast, Australia
2. Adelaide beach management 1836-2025
3. Pitfalls of ebb shoal mining
4. Documenting beach loss in front of seawalls in Puerto Rico: pitfalls of engineering a small island-nation shore
5. Narratives of shoreline erosion and protection at Shishmaref, Alaska: the anecdotal and the analytical
6. Portballintrae Bay, Northern Ireland: 116 years of misplaced management
7. Beach Nourishment in the United States
8. Failed Coastal stabilization: examples from the KwaZulu-Natal Coast, South Africa
9. Presque Isle Breakwaters: successful failures?
10. Armoring on Eroding Coasts Leads to Beach Narrowing and Loss on Oahu, Hawaii
11. Compromising Reef Island Shoreline Dynamics: Legacies of the Engineering Paradigm in the Maldives
12. "Alternative" shoreline erosion control devices: a review.
13. Bad practice in erosion management: the Southern Sicily case study
14. The history of shoreline stabilization on the Spanish Costa del Sol
15. Coastal defense in NW Portugal: the improbable victory
16. Stabilizing the Forgotten Shore: Case study from the Delaware Bay
17. Shoreline stabilisation: lessons from South Wales
18. Coastal Stabilization Practice in France
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