Beach Management Tools - Concepts, Methodologies and Case Studies

natural habitats as wave energy dissipation structures and coastal protection mechanisms.- 22. Environmental and health risk by the presence of parasites in the sand of cartagena beaches.- 23. Florida and US East Coast Beach Change Metrics Derived from LiDAR Data Utilizing ArcGIS Python Based Tools.- 24. Identification of Storm Surge Vulnerable Areas in Bay of Manzanillo, Colima, México.- 25. Integrating beach user and local community perceptions in beach management.- 26. Landfilling of coastal wetlands in Yucatan, Mexico: a multidisciplinary analysis.- 27. Environmental services as a tool for negotiating usage in the coastal ecoregions of the sand dunes in Baja California, Mexico.- 28. Management for multipurpose use on sheltered beaches: conceptual framework for conservation and recreation over an ecological basis.- 29. Microscale governance and temporal regulations in beach Management.- 30. Nautical Recreational and Beach Tourism Service Providers (NRBTSP) at Gaviotas beach in Mazatlán, Sinaloa (Mexico).- 31. Overall response to deep sea impact on Colima´s beaches.- 32. Preserving sand quality in beach nourishment.- 33. Privatization of the Mexican Coast, the case of the municipality of Solidarity (municipio de Solidaridad), Quintana Roo: correspondence between the work of public administration and development of everyday life practices.- 34. Recreational carrying capacity assessment for beach management, with examples from southern Mozambique.- 35. Recreational preferences of estonian shore types and willingness to pay in comparison.- 36. Rip currents in Costa Rica: drowning statistics, research and future developments.- 37. Sandy beach preservation and recreation: actions for adaptation to the legislation.- 38. Status of the Coastline of Puerto Rico.- 39. Sustainable Coastal Zone Management Strategies for Unconsolidated Deltaic Odisha, the Northern Part of East Indian Coast.- 40. Temporal space behavior of three environmental quality determinants from touristic beaches in cartagena, Colombia.- 41. The Morphodynamics behaviour of a cross-shore sandbar in a microtidal environment.- 42. Use and perception on beach restoration projects in Yucatán peninsula: technical or culture issues?.- 43. User's perception of beach characteristics and management in summer and autumn seasons: the case of Gran Canaria Islands (Spain).- 44. Users' data support the case for differential beach management in South Africa.- 45. Using drones to evaluate sand volumen in the "La Lagunita" dune field, Ensenada, México.

technical expert in Beach certification and Ecoturism standards of The Mexican Accreditation Body (EMA). He worked to environmental consulting companies (2002-2011) as the project manager of environmental baseline studies in tourism coastal projects, in restoration of coastal environments and environmental supervision. He is a research professor in a Bachelor career of Marine Sciences (Oceanology) and in the Master program of Marine Sciences of the Faculty of Marine Sciences (University of Colima, México). He teaches lectures on Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM), Coastal Ecology, Marine Pollution, Environmental Economics, Risk Management, Coastal Policy Analysis and others topics. He has been instructor in short courses about Beach Management in Brazil, Colombia and Uruguay. Since 2001 he has been an environmental consultant on topics such as Environmental Impact and Environmental Site assessment, focusing his last projects in beachmanagement topics; rip currents and beach risks, environmental valuation, zonification and certification or ecolabels. He published articles at Ocean and Coastal Management, Journal of Coastal Research and Environmental Management Journals. Advisory in undergraduate, masters and PhD´s thesis. He have communication skills in English and Portuguese language. He has been reviewer of scientific projects for the Council on Science and Technology of Uruguay and México. Now he is a member of scientific networks such as Iberoamerican network of Beach management Proplayas and Integrated Coastal Management (IBERMAR).