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SCOPAC Sediment
Transport Bibliographic Database
Version 5 (2002)
University of Portsmouth.
The 2002 Bibliographic Database comprises some 5,000 references to relevant
shoreline management reports and publications for the 400 kilometre frontage of
the SCOPAC region. The database is searchable by topic and/or area.
The database comprises a searchable archive of sources compiled in Microsoft Access 2000 format for Windows. It provides reference details, searchable
keywords, abstract and details of where original copies are held for all published and unpublished material, which it has been possible to obtain or consult.
The database encompasses all aspects of
sediment transport and sediment budgets on the coast, including long term
and short term coastal changes, and the effects of dredging and reclamation.
Relevant books, journal articles, consultants’ reports, local authority reports, academic theses and other unpublished sources
are included.
 The database was originally compiled for
SCOPAC in 1989 by the Department of Geography, University Portsmouth and was updated in 1992, 1995, 1998 and 2002.
The
full database (v5 2002) is available here; you will need to have Microsoft Access 2000
or later installed on your computer to access it.
The 2004 SCOPAC
Sediment Transport project
relied heavily upon the Bibliographic Database to identify the
sources of information that were subsequently reviewed to
produce the study.
Background
The aim of the
bibliographic study was to compile as much as possible of the available
published and unpublished literature and information relating to coastal
sedimentation processes and sediment transport along the south coast of
England between Start Point (Devon) and Beachy Head (East Sussex).
SCOPAC considered that fundamental to effective management of coastal protection and sea defences is an understanding of sediment transport processes on the coast.
In considering its research strategy in 1989, SCOPAC was aware that much research had already been done within it's area,
although much of this was in the form of consultancy reports to individual
authorities and organisations and was not readily available.
It was decided that before embarking on original (expensive) research it should be established what
studies had already been carried out, and that this material should be collated in such a way as to make it more accessible.
As a
first stage, it was decided that a bibliographic database should be compiled
which would contain details of all relevant studies on the SCOPAC coastline.
Portsmouth Polytechnic was commissioned to undertake the work and produced the computerised database and accompanying Report in 1989. It has since been kept up-to-date with the assistance of SCOPAC.
By July 1989 the compilation of the database produced 2,160 items, and 3,100 by July 1991.
The 5th edition (SCOPAC 5, October 2002) contains nearly 5,000 separate references.
Over 95% of this growth
was accounted for by published and unpublished reports and papers that
appeared between January 1990 and August 2002, (the “cut off” point for
inclusion in this review). Although the update of the database was completed
in August 2002, key reports produced since then were included in the analysis.
The
Bibliographic Database study confirmed that there was already a substantial body of information concerning sediment transport and sediment budgets in the
central south coast of England.
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