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Multi-criteria approaches to identify the shoreline retreat downstream of dams: the North African case
National Institute of Marine Sciences and Technologies, Laboratory of Marine Environment, University of Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia
Gil Mahé
HSM, UMR 5151, CNRS, Université Montpellier, IRD, 300, Avenue du
Professeur Emile Jeanbrau, 34090 Montpellier, France
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Our multidisciplinary study reveals an alarming trend of beach retreat reaching −20 m ± 0.15 m yr−1 after the human-induced change over the hydrological network where ~ 50 % of sediment discharge has been trapped upstream the dams. Accros the semi arid north African coasts, the rapid shoreline retreat is due to the decreasing of sediment fluvial discharge trapped by the dam infrastrcture.
Our multidisciplinary study reveals an alarming trend of beach retreat reaching...
