Managing European Coasts : Past, Present and Future

Managing European Coasts : Past, Present and Future

المؤلف
Jan Vermaat, Wim Salomons, Laurens Bouwer, Kerry Turner
سنة النشر
2005
الناشر
Springer
لغة الملف
انكليزي
نوع الملف
Book
تصنيف الكتاب
Environmental Science

Many coastal areas and human activities are subject to increasing risks from natural and man-induced hazards such as flooding resulting from major changes in hydrology of river systems that has reached a global scale. Changes in the hydrological cycle coupled with changes in land and water management alter fluxes of materials transmitted from river catchments to the coastal zone, which have a major effect on coastal ecosystems. The increasing complexity of underlying processes and forcing functions that drive changes on coastal systems are witnessed at a multiplicity of temporal and spatial scales.


الكلمات المفتاحية: Earth and environmental science / Bathing Water / Coast / Coastal Waters / EU Policy / Land-ocean Fluxes / Ocean / Water Framework Directive / Development / Ecosystems / Marine / Sea level