1. Coastal management: Issues and tools. Introduction

   • Taveira Pinto
   • Eddy Maarel

   Special Feature Pages: 3 - 4

2. Identifying change in estuaries

   • Townend Ian H.

   Special Feature Pages: 5 - 12

3. Environmental indicators as tools for the management of estuaries—Methodology and case study of the Tejo estuary

   • Cardoso da Silva Margarida
   • Carmona Rodrigues António

   Special Feature Pages: 13 - 24

4. Self-purification capacity and management of Baltic coastal ecosystems

   • Schiewer Ulrich
   • Schernewski Gerald

   Special Feature Pages: 25 - 32

5. Ecology, management and monitoring of grey dunes in Flanders

   • Provoost Sam
   • Ampe Carole
   • Hoffmann Maurice

   Special Feature Pages: 33 - 42

6. Erosion risk levels at the NW Portuguese coast: the Douro mouth—Cape Mondego stretch

   • Veloso-Gomes F.
   • Taveira-Pinto F.
   • Coelho Carlos

   Special Feature Pages: 43 - 52

7. Using earth observation data from multiple sources to map rare habitats in a coastal conservation area

   • Thackrah Graham
   • Rhind Peter
   • Barnsley Mike

   Special Feature Pages: 53 - 64

8. Futurecoast: Predicting the future coastal evolution of England and Wales

   • Burgess Kevin
   • Jay Helen
   • Hosking Adam

   Special Feature Pages: 65 - 71

9. Participatory tools for coastal zone management: Use of stakeholder analysis and social mapping in Australia

   • Rockloff Susan F.
   • Lockie Stewart

   Special Feature Pages: 81 - 92

10. Sustainability of sand dune restoration along the coast of the Tyrrhenian sea

    • Lillis M.
    • Costanzo L.
    • Tinelli A.

    OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 100

11. Variation in populations of the coastal dune building grassLeymus arenarius in Iceland revealed by endospermal prolamins

    • Greipsson S.
    • El-Mayas H.
    • Ahokas H.

    OriginalPaper Pages: 101 - 108

12. Counting of visitors in the Meijendel dunes, The Netherlands

    • Beunen Raoul
    • Jaarsma Catharinus F.
    • Kramer Rob N. A.

    OriginalPaper Pages: 109 - 118

13. Development of a ‘Matrix Scoring Technique’ to determine litter sources at a Bristol Channel beach

    • Tudor David T.
    • Williams Allan T.

    OriginalPaper Pages: 119 - 127

14. ‘Coastal squeeze’— an historical perspective

    • Doody J. Pat

    OriginalPaper Pages: 129 - 138

15. Managing mangroves in Bangladesh: A strategy analysis

    • Iftekhar M. S.
    • Islam M. R.

    OriginalPaper Pages: 139 - 146

16. The practice of coastal zone management in Portugal

    • Taveira Pinto Francisco

    OriginalPaper Pages: 147 - 157

17. Management of coastal vegetated shingle in the United Kingdom

    • Randall R. E.

    OriginalPaper Pages: 159 - 168

18. The Journal of Coastal Conservation, 1995–2004

    • Maarel Eddy
    • Meulen Frank

    OriginalPaper Pages: 169 - 188