A review of methods for constructing coastal recreational facilities in Egypt (Red Sea)

Frihy, Omran E.; Hassan, A. K.; Sayed, W. R. El; Iskander, Moheb; Sherif, Mohamed Y.

doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2005.11.001

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“…Monitoring of ecological components in their function as coastal protection structure is important while variation in the exact outcome is an inherent property of biological elements (Airoldi et al, 2005;Martin et al, 2005;Frihy et al, 2006). This characteristic of ecological components is also referred to as 'self-design' (Mitsch and Wilson, 1996;Odum and Odum, 2003;Mitsch and Day, 2004).…”

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“…This illustrated the importance for the development of predictive modeling tools in which two-way coupling between biotic and physical processes is addressed (Borsje et al, 2009;Reinhardt et al, 2010). This requires further development of state of the art model tools and validation data sets by collaboration between engineers and ecologist (Frihy et al, 2006;Chapman and Blockley, 2009). The envisioned models should allow for prediction of long-term large-scale effects of ecosystem engineering species within coastal protection, as there is a strong need for quantitative insights on these larger scales to support policy and decision making.…”

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How ecological engineering can serve in coastal protection

Borsje

Wesenbeeck

Dekker

et al. 2011

Ecological Engineering

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How ecological engineering can serve in coastal protection

Borsje

Wesenbeeck

Dekker

et al. 2011

Ecological Engineering

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“…Because of the unique marine and terrestrial environmental conditions along its coasts, more interest for mapping ESI has been focused on the Sinai Peninsula and Red Sea coasts. This is including a high biological diversity such as coral reefs, mangroves, rare wildlife species and a variety of coastal geomorphology from rocky to sandy, with both low and high relief topology with stable physical characters such as salinity, temperature and water quality [3,4,6,27]. Oil production and shipping always threaten the coasts of the Red Sea and Sinai with oil pollution, especially the Gulf of Suez where the majority of oil exploration and production is located.…”

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Evaluation of environmental sensitivity of the coastal plains shoreline to oil spills: Southwestern Sinai coastal plain, Egypt

Wahid¹,

Madden²

2017

EESRJ

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Assessing the coastal Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) is very important for contingency planning for oil spills, especially for regions undergoing urban development. This study is an attempt to identify the sensitivity of the southeastern portion of the Gulf of Suez shoreline; a very promising area for economic development. Enhancing a methodology for calculating ESI in this work obtains more efficient results for environmental sensitivity assessment. This is accomplished by adding more detailed physical factors that may affect the ESI. The coastline is ranked according to factors controlling coastal resiliency to oil spills. These factors are categorized in three sets of data: 1) physical habitats of the coastline that determine the persistence of oil pollution and ease of cleaning and reclamation such as beach types, degree of exposure to waves, beach slope, wave directions and tidal flats (physical factors); 2) biological resources sensitive to oil (ecosystem factors); and 3) the types of human-use resources (socio-economic factors). Data used to determine these factors were collected from satellite images, field work and documentary information and were manipulated in a GIS environment using a geospatial arithmetic modeling to produce spatial environmental sensitivity maps of coastal shorelines. The studied shoreline of the southwestern Sinai coastal plain of Egypt has a wide range of sensitivity to oil spills ranges from very low to very high. The northern part of the shoreline is characterized by low sensitive beaches where the morphology and beach type play the dominant rule in reducing the sensitivity. It is composed mainly of high slope rocky beaches. The southern part is dominant by sandy tidal flat beaches and coral reefs communities that extend wider and shallower. This makes the southern beaches relatively more environmentally sensitive to oil spills.

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“…Previous studied have reported the potential environmental effects from the discharges of the desalination plants in marine environments [6,8]. The desalination plants discharge their reject into the marine environment, and this resulted in impact to marine life [9]. Seawater salinity might not be different in profile from the surface to the bottom while in the ambient area of the discharge reject water it can fluctuate between the surface and to ten meters depth [10].…”

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Impacts of Discharge of Desalination Plants on Marine Environment at the Southern Part of the Egyptian Red Sea Coast (Case Study)

Nasr¹,

Yousef²,

Madkour³

2019

IJEE

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There are many researches illustrated that almost lots mankind is suffering from shortage fresh water supply, both of quality and quantity. Considering water inadequate concerns approximately 80 countries and has caused some dangerous results in many places. The water shortage phenomenon is becoming a serious worldwide problem that impacts people's daily life and obstacle the social development. Because of the population increasing and expansion of industrial and agricultural activities, the governments of many countries get one's way to implement the desalination plants. A desalination plants is an industrial system that would have the potential to have an effect on environmental ecosystem. This study monitored variety of environmental impacts can be caused by desalination plants. It's considers a case study for two of the desalination plants located at Shalateen city at Red sea governorate namely; Marsa Humira and Shalateen desalination plants. The investigation unconcealed that there are distinct impacts of the reject water on the marine ecosystem in the front of the two studied stations. The photographs that has been taken to the biota exist in the marine area around the stations elucidated some of coral reefs affected by the discharge of the saline reject around. Coral reef and sea grass are the most biota affected due to the salty discharges that exceed the safe limits for those to be in a healthy condition.

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A review of methods for constructing coastal recreational facilities in Egypt (Red Sea)

Cited by 17 publications

References 23 publications

How ecological engineering can serve in coastal protection

How ecological engineering can serve in coastal protection

Evaluation of environmental sensitivity of the coastal plains shoreline to oil spills: Southwestern Sinai coastal plain, Egypt

Impacts of Discharge of Desalination Plants on Marine Environment at the Southern Part of the Egyptian Red Sea Coast (Case Study)

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