Presents an innovative overview of modelling procedures for the hindcast and prediction of coastal morphogenesis

Offers transdisciplinary approaches of geosciences, climatology and engineering sciences approaches to describe natural and anthropogenic driving forces of coastal processes

Includes a classification of sandy coasts by morphodynamic parameters

Introduction.- Part 1 A Concepts and model approaches.- Chapter 1 What determines the change of coastlines in the Baltic Sea? (Jan Harff, Junjie Deng, Joanna Dudzinska-Nowak, Peter Froehle, Andreas Groh, Birgit Hünicke, Tarmo Soomere, Wenyan Zhang).- Chapter 2 The Challenge of Baltic Sea level change(Birgit Hünicke, Eduardo Zorita, Hans von Storch).- Chapter 3 Recent Baltic sea-level changes induced by past and present ice masses(Andreas Groh, Andreas Richter, Reinhard Dietrich).- Chapter 4 Factors and processes forming the Polish Southern Baltic Sea coast on various temporal and spatial scales(Stanis¿aw Musielak, Kazimierz Furmäczyk, Natalia Bugajny).- Chapter 5 The Dynamic Equilibrium Shore Model for the reconstruction and future projection of coastal morphodynamics(Junjie Deng, Jan Harff, Wenyan Zhang, Ralf Schneider, Joanna Dudzinska-Nowak, Andrzej Giza, Pawel Terefenko, Kazimierz Furmanczyk).- Chapter 6 Modeling of medium-term (decadal) coastal foredune morphodynamics- historical hindcast and future scenarios of the ¿wina Gate barrier coast (southern Baltic Sea)( Wenyan Zhang, Ralf Schneider, Jan Harff, Birgit Hünicke, Peter Fröhle).- Chapter 7 Constraints of Radiocarbon Dating in Southeastern Baltic Lagoons: Assessing the Vital Effects(Albertas Bitinas, Jonas Mažeika, Ilya V. Buynevich, Aldona Damušyt¿, Anatoly Molodkov, Alma Grigien¿).- Part B Regional studies.- Chpater 8 Late Glacial to Holocene environmental changes (with particular reference to salinity) in the southern Baltic reconstructed from shallow water lagoon sediments(Andrzej Witkowski, Bernard Cedro, S¿awomir Dobosz, Alistair W.R. Seddon, Agnieszka Kierzek).- Chapter 9 Postglacial evolution of the Odra River mouth, Poland-Germany(Ryszard Krzysztof Borówka, Andrzej Osadczuk, Krystyna Osadczuk, Andrzej Witkowski, Artur Skowronek, Mägorzata Latäowa, Kamila Mianowicz).- Chapter 10 Morphodynamic processes of the Swina Gate coastal zone development (southern Baltic Sea) (Joanna Dudzinska-Nowak).-Chapter 11 New demands on old maps - An approach for estimating aspects of accuracy of old maps as basis for landscape development research(Jörg Hartleib, Bernd Bobertz).- Chapter 12 Reconstruction of coastline changes by the comparisons of historical maps at the Pomeranian Bay, southern Baltic Sea(Junjie Deng, Jan Harff, Andrzej Giza, Jörg Hartleib, Joanna Dudzinska-Nowak, Bernd Bobertz, Kazimierz Furmanczyk, Reinhard Zölitz).- Chapter 13 Changes in the Szczecin Lagoon shoreline as determined from selected 17th and 19th century maps(Krzysztof Siedlik).- Chapter 14 Retrieving the signal of climate change from numerically simulated sediment transport along the eastern Baltic Sea coast(Tarmo Soomere, Maija Viška, Katri Pindsoo).- Chapter 15 Sea-level change and flood risks at Estonian coastal zone(Alar Rosentau, Merle Muru, Martin Gauk, Tõnis Oja, Aive Liibusk, Tarmo Kall, Enn Karro, Antti Roose, Mait Sepp, Ants Tammepuu, Jaan Tross, Marge Uppin)