Managing European Coasts
Publication year: 2005
ISBN: 978-3-540-27150-5
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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.
Subject: Earth and Environmental Science, Bathing Water, Coast, Coastal Waters, EU Policy, Land-ocean Fluxes, Ocean, Water Framework Directive, development, ecosystems, marine, sea level
