Coasts and Estuaries: The Future

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 sustainabilityIncludes 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 findPresents full color images to aid the reader in a better understanding of details of each case studyProvides a multi-disciplinary approach, linking biology, physics, climate and social sciences INDICE: 1. A Synthesis: What Future for Coasts and Estuaries in 2050 and beyond? + Box 1 - China's Mudflats + Box 2 - Industrial Pollution Legacy of Muddy Estuaries: A Case Study in Australia + Box 3 - What Future for Australia's Tropical Estuaries?   Estuaries 2. An Assessment of Saltwater Intrusion in the Changjiang (Yangtze) River Estuary, China 3. The Rhine, Scheldt and Meuse - future changes and challenges for ports 4. Río de la Plata: A Neotropical Estuarine System 5. Estuaries and Coastal Zones in the Northern Persian Gulf (Iran) 6. Protecting Water Quality in Urban Estuaries: Australian Case Studies 7. How to manage megafauna in estuaries and coastal waters 8. Peel-Harvey Estuary, Western Australia   Deltas 9. Arctic Deltas and Estuaries: A Canadian Perspective 10. Delta Winners and Losers in the Anthropocene 11. Mississippi Delta Restoration and Protection: Shifting Baselines, Diminishing Resilience, and Growing Non-sustainability 12. Integrated Management of the Ganges Delta, India 13. The Indus Delta: Catchment, River, Coast and People + Box 1 - Wetlands Of Sindh 14. A brief overview of ecological degradation of the Nile delta: what we can learn? 15. Status and Sustainability of Mediterranean Deltas: The Case of the Ebro, Rhône, and Po Deltas and Venice Lagoon Wetlands, Lagoons and Catchments 16. Coastal Lagoons: Environmental Variability, Ecosystem Complexity and Goods and Services Uniformity 17. The Everglades: At the Forefront of Transition 18. Population Growth, Nutrient Enrichment, and Science-based Policy in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed 19. The Senegal and Pangani Rivers: Examples of Over-used River Systems Within Water Stressed Environments in Africa 20. Damming the Mekong: Impacts in Vietnam and Solutions Enclosed, Semi-enclosed and Open Coasts 21. Baltic Sea: A Recovering Future from Decades of Eutrophication 22. The Black Sea: The Past, Present, and Future Status 23. Ecosystem Functioning and Sustainable Management in Coastal Systems with High Freshwater Input in the Southern Gulf of Mexico and Yucatan Peninsula   Restoration of Estuaries 24. Restoration of Estuaries and Bays in Japan: What's Been Done so far and Future Perspectives 25. Challenges of Restoring Polluted Industrialised Muddy NW European Estuaries 26. Can Bivalve Habitat Restoration Improve Degraded Estuaries? + Box 1 - CASE STUDY 1. Large-scale oyster restoration in Harris Creek, Chesapeake Bay, USA + Box 2 - CASE STUDY 2. Oyster restoration in China + Box 3 - CASE STUDY 3: Bivalve restoration down under + Box 4 - CASE STUDY 4: Essex Native Oyster Restoration Initiative + Box 5 - Can bivalve aquaculture replace the lost functioning of bivalve habitats? Coral Reefs 27. Successful Management of Coral Reef-watershed Networks 28. Challenges and Opportunities in Management of Coral Islands of Lakshadweep, India 29. The Future of the Great Barrier Reef: The Water Quality Imperative Over-arching Topics 30. Estuarine Ecohydrology Modeling: What Works and Within what Limits? 31. Hypersalinity: Global Distribution, Causes and Present and Future Effects on the Biota of Estuaries and Lagoons 32. Alien Species Invasion: Case Study of the Black Sea 33. Coastal Fisheries: The Past, Present and Possible Futures 34. Temperate estuaries: their ecology under future environmental changes 35. Plastic Pollution in the Coastal Environment: Current Challenges and Future Solutions 36. Changing Hydrology: A UK Perspective Management of Change 37. Global Change Impacts on the Future of Coastal Systems: Perverse Interactions Among Climate Change, Ecosystem Degradation, Energy Scarcity, and Population 38. Human-nature Relations in Flux: Two decades of Research in Coastal and Ocean Management 39. Megacities and the Coast: Global Context and Scope for Transformation 40. Arctic Coastal Systems: Evaluating the DAPSI(W)R(M) Framework

• ISBN: 978-0-12-814003-1
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 900
• Fecha Publicación: 16/01/2019
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés