| Author(s) | Eric Wolanski, John W. Day, Mike Elliott, Ramachandran Ramesh |
 | Year | 2019
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 | Pages | 678 |
 | Language | English |
 | Format | PDF |
 | Size | 246 MB
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 | Publisher | Elsevier |
 | ISBN | 0128140038, 978-0128140031, B07N4N29F1 |
Coasts and Estuaries: The Future
provides valuable information on how we can protect and maintain
natural ecological structures while also allowing estuaries to deliver
services that produce societal goods and benefits. These issues are
addressed through chapters detailing case studies from estuaries and
coastal waters worldwide, presenting a full range of natural variability
and human pressures. Following this, a series of chapters written by
scientific leaders worldwide synthesizes the problems and offers
solutions for specific issues graded within the framework of the
socio-economic-environmental mosaic. These include fisheries, climate
change, coastal megacities, evolving human-nature interactions,
remediation measures, and integrated coastal management.
The
problems faced by half of the world living near coasts are truly a
worldwide challenge as well as an opportunity for scientists to study
commonalities and differences and provide solutions. This book is
centered around the proposed DAPSI(W)R(M) framework, where drivers of
basic human needs requires activities that each produce pressures. The
pressures are mechanisms of state change on the natural system and
Impacts on societal welfare (including well-being). These problems then
require responses, which are the solutions relating to governance,
socio-economic and cultural measures (Scharin et al 2016).
- Covers estuaries and coastal seas worldwide, integrating their commonality, differences and solutions for sustainability
- Includes
global case studies from leading worldwide contributors, with
accompanying boxes highlighting a synopsis about a particular estuary
and coastal sea, making all information easy to find
- Presents full color images to aid the reader in a better understanding of details of each case study
- Provides a multi-disciplinary approach, linking biology, physics, climate and social sciences
