Asian and Pacific Coasts 2003

Preface

This book collects the abstracts presented at the second International Conference on Asian and Pacific Coasts (APAC), held in Chiba, Japan on February 29 -March 4, 2004. The volume starts with the paper of the keynote lecture. The included Proceedings on CD-ROM contains all full length papers directly reproduced from material submitted by the authors, allowing for high quality color graphics and photographs.

The series of conferences was conceived and organized with the aim to promote technological progress and activities, international technical transfer and cooperation, and opportunities for engineers and researchers to maintain and improve scientific and technical competence in the field of coastal engineering and other related fields. It is further intended to provide an international forum for the academic and technical activities, cooperation, opportunity and fellowship among researchers and engineers, and to exchange experience of coastal and port engineering development, and coastal environmental problems among Asian and Pacific countries. The first conference on Asian and Pacific Coastal Engineering (APACE) was held in Dalian, China in 2001. The conference name has been slightly changed to Asian and Pacific Coasts (APAC). It aims at emphasizing that the subject area of the conference may not be limited to the classical topics of coastal engineering but be extended to related field including coastal environments, marine ecology, coastal oceanography, and fishery science and engineering. Key conference topics include:

1. Coastal oceanography and meteorology (waves, currents, tides, tsunami, etc.)
2. Coastal sedimentary processes and their control measures
3. Design and investigation of coastal and harbor structures
4. Coastal environmental problems and marine ecology
5. Coastal fishery problems and resource management
6. Global environmental problems
7. Coastal zone management and planning
8. Remote sensing / laboratory and field measurement techniques
9. Miscellaneous coastal problems.

This conference was jointly organized by the Coastal Engineering Committee, Japan Society of Civil Engineers, the Chinese Ocean Engineering Society and the Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers. It was organized in cooperation with the Coastal, Oceans, Ports and Rivers Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (COPRI), the International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR), the Oceanographic Society of Japan, the Japanese Society of Fisheries Science and the Japanese Society of Fisheries Engineering. Finally the organizing committee should like to express their appreciation for the support afforded by the sponsors, the Service Center of Port Engineering (SCOPE), Coastal Development Institute of Technology (CDIT), the Overseas Coastal Area Development Institute of Japan (OCDI), Waterfront Vitalization and Environment Research Center (WAVE), Japan Dredging and Reclamation Engineering Association, Japan Ocean Development Construction Association, Japan Port and Airport Construction Association, Japan Institute of Construction Engineering, Foundation for Riverfront Improvement and Restoration, Cold Region Port and Harbor Engineering Research Center, JSCE Scientific Promotion Fund, Chiba Convention Bureau and International Center, and the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan.

• Editors
• Y. Goda
• W. Kioka
• K. Nadaoka