Managing European Coasts : Past, Present and Future
- Author
- Jan Vermaat, Wim Salomons, Laurens Bouwer, Kerry Turner
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer
- Language
- English
- Document Type
- Book
- Faculty / Subject Heading
- Environmental Science
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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.
Keywords: Earth and environmental science / Bathing Water / Coast / Coastal Waters / EU Policy / Land-ocean Fluxes / Ocean / Water Framework Directive / Development / Ecosystems / Marine / Sea level
