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Tomorrow's Coasts: Complex and Impermanent (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Tomorrow's Coasts: Complex and Impermanent (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: Coastal Research Library, 27
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This book is intended as a conceptual roadmap to show how some of
the numerous pieces of complex coastal systems intersect and might
interact under changing future environmental regimes. It is
addressed to a non-technical but environmentally literate audience
that includes the lay public, policy makers, planners, engineers
and academics interested in the causes and consequences of global
changes as they are likely to affect coastal systems. The book also
outlines some strategies for anticipating and responding to the
challenges that lie ahead. The purpose is not to offer a technical
treatise on how to build better numerical models or to provide the
cognoscenti with new scientific details or theories. Quite on the
contrary the authors aim to provide a holistic, easy-accessible
overview of coastal systems and therefore use a writing style that
is non-technical, nonmathematical and non-jargonized throughout.
Wherever scientific terms are required to avoid ambiguity, a clear
and simple definition is presented and those definitions are
repeated in the glossary. The authors aim to communicate with all
who care about the future of coastal environments. In Part 1, they
present some underlying general "big picture" concepts that are
applicable to coastal processes and coastal change worldwide. Part
2 reviews some of the more important physical, ecological and
societal causes and outcomes of coastal change. A selection of case
studies of some prominent and highly vulnerable coastal regions is
presented in Part 3. Some strategies for facilitating and
supporting collaboration among the global scientific community to
enhance future coastal resilience are outlined in Part 4.
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