Hazards and Risks of Recreation Water Use: Vectors of International Studies. The Impacts of Natural Forces on Recreation Beaches and Human Health

A series of reviews of foreign publications on the problem of hazards on recreational beaches is completed by the generalization of the objectives, tasks, methods, and conclusions of the studies into the hazards to the public spaces, infrastructure, and vacationers due to waves, currents, erosion, and other natural phenomena and processes. The analysis of the approaches and results of applied hydrodynamic, geomorphological, climatic, and sociological studies is used to formulate ideas promising for the development of the theory and practice of studying he hazards on beaches in Russia.