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The workshop was sponsored by and organized for the Belgian Administration
for Development Cooperation. A kudo is due to the firms that participated in the
Bundung workshop. The manuscript was produced by HAECON and the authors
wish to thank its secretarial staff, particularly Mrs. Eveline De Bock, for their
patience, efforts and cooperation. Anne-Marie De Wilde provided considerable
help in proof-reading.
American English is used in the text. This is due to the fact that the first author
spent 35 years teaching at university level in the United States. If the European
computer occasionally balked at abiding by such spelling, we apologize.
We hope that this book will prove helpful in guiding decision-makers. It must be
kept in mind that, as in medicine where "there are no illnesses, only patients",
there are no standard solutions but there are regional situations requiring casetailored medicine. There is no cure for shoreline retreat but there are steps that
can be taken to alleviate and control the situation. Our aim has been to outline,
rather comprehensively, what those steps are.
Drongen, Belgium
Prof. Roger H. Charlier
ir. Christian P. De Meyer