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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Coastal zone management
ISBN : UVA:35007000182315
Author : Lesley Ewing,Louise Wallendorf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015054123461
This collection contains 83 papers presented at the Solutions to Coastal Disasters 2002 Conference, held in San Diego, California, February 24-27, 2002.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Coastal zone management
ISBN : ERDC:35925000571684
Author : Anonim
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Coastal ecology
ISBN : 9789280725773
Author : Norbert P. Psuty,Douglas D. Ofiara
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0813531500
As with most shorelines around the world, New Jersey beaches are slowly, but inexorably, being eroded, threatening coastal structures and development. In some years more sand is deposited than removed, but all of the state's monitoring devices show that sea level is gradually rising and pushing the New Jersey shoreline inland. The shore is a valuable resource, and its natural, cultural, and economic attractions draw a multitude of permanent and temporary residents each year, extending housing and commercial development onto areas that were once swampland. Not surprisingly, development at the water's edge has been accompanied by an increasing exposure to the natural hazards of the coastal zone--erosion, flooding, and wind damage. In this book, Norbert Psuty and Douglas Ofiara incorporate perspectives from the areas of coastal sciences, economics, public policy, and land-use planning in creating a systematic plan for coastal management and protection. It has been more than a decade since New Jersey developed the nation's first state shore protection plan, and this volume provides a timely evaluation of its achievements and future challenges. This self-contained book provides all of the relevant theories, models, and examples so the reader will not need to refer to any other literature to gain an understanding of the issues and policies surrounding shore protection. It is the authoritative handbook for practitioners and policy makers in many fields, including coastal science and management and engineering, as well as public policy and economics.
Author : Mark Pelling,Sophie Blackburn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135074746
Based on a major international study, this volume provides a synthesis of scientific knowledge on megacity urbanization on the coast, environmental impacts, risks and management choices, including a focus on adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk management. It is the primary output of a major international scientific project sponsored by the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme, the Land-Ocean Interactions at the Coastal Zone programme of IHDP/IGBP, and others. It brings together the work of over 60 contributing authors and an international review board. It presents the international policy and academic community with an unbiased and high quality assessment of the state-of-the art in areas of social-ecological systems interaction. One of its main messages is that while we know a great deal about megacities of more than ten million people and about urban processes, and about coasts and their physical and ecological processes (aquatic, physical and atmospheric), there is relatively little work that focusses primarily at points of intersection between large-scale urbanization and the coast. The book responds to this gap by providing the first global synthesis of megacity and large urban region urbanization on the coast. Its focus is on environmental and development challenges, climate change and disaster. It is interdisciplinary and brings together world recognised scientists (including many IPCC lead authors) on urban climate and atmosphere, disaster risk management, demography and coastal environments.
Author : James Kenneth Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Nature
ISBN : UVA:35007004872184
Author : United States. Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Coastal ecology
ISBN : UCR:31210023449190
Author : National Ocean Survey. Office of Coastal Zone Management
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Coastal zone management
ISBN : OCLC:6549873
Author : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Center for Urban and Regional Studies,David J. Brower
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Coastal zone management
ISBN : UVA:35007000421812
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Coastal zone management
ISBN : 0971759227
Author : James W. Good,Sandra S. Ridlington
Publisher : Oregon Sea Grant
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Coastal zone management
ISBN : UCSD:31822016449977
Author : Committee on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Water Resources Science, Engineering, and Planning: Coastal Risk Reduction,National Research Council,Water Science and Technology Board,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Ocean Studies Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0309305861
Hurricane- and coastal-storm-related losses have increased substantially during the past century, largely due to increases in population and development in the most susceptible coastal areas. Climate change poses additional threats to coastal communities from sea level rise and possible increases in strength of the largest hurricanes. Several large cities in the United States have extensive assets at risk to coastal storms, along with countless smaller cities and developed areas. The devastation from Superstorm Sandy has heightened the nation's awareness of these vulnerabilities. What can we do to better prepare for and respond to the increasing risks of loss? Reducing Coastal Risk on the East and Gulf Coasts reviews the coastal risk-reduction strategies and levels of protection that have been used along the United States East and Gulf Coasts to reduce the impacts of coastal flooding associated with storm surges. This report evaluates their effectiveness in terms of economic return, protection of life safety, and minimization of environmental effects. According to this report, the vast majority of the funding for coastal risk-related issues is provided only after a disaster occurs. This report calls for the development of a national vision for coastal risk management that includes a long-term view, regional solutions, and recognition of the full array of economic, social, environmental, and life-safety benefits that come from risk reduction efforts. To support this vision, Reducing Coastal Risk states that a national coastal risk assessment is needed to identify those areas with the greatest risks that are high priorities for risk reduction efforts. The report discusses the implications of expanding the extent and levels of coastal storm surge protection in terms of operation and maintenance costs and the availability of resources. Reducing Coastal Risk recommends that benefit-cost analysis, constrained by acceptable risk criteria and other important environmental and social factors, be used as a framework for evaluating national investments in coastal risk reduction. The recommendations of this report will assist engineers, planners and policy makers at national, regional, state, and local levels to move from a nation that is primarily reactive to coastal disasters to one that invests wisely in coastal risk reduction and builds resilience among coastal communities.
Author : Charles W. Finkl
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789400752344
This book covers the gamut of coastal hazards that result from short-term low-frequency events and have high-magnitude and far-reaching impacts on coastal zones the world over. Much of the world’s population now lives in low-lying coastal zones that are inherently vulnerable to natural hazards such as flooding from hurricanes, tropical storms and northeastern storm surges; shoreline (beach and dune) erosion; cliff and bluff failures; and saltwater intrusion in coastal aquifers used for drinking water supplies. In addition to the usual range of hydrometeorological disasters in coastal zones, this book covers tsunami impacts and warning systems as well as global perspectives of sea-level rise impacts and human perceptions of potential vulnerabilities resulting from rip currents that cause many drownings each year on beaches. Today, the use of numerical models that help predict vulnerabilities and provide a basis for shore protection measures is important in modern scientific and engineering systems. Final considerations focus on human actions in the form of the urbanization and industrialization of the coast, shore protection measures, and indicate how environmental degradation around coastal conurbations exacerbates the potential for unwanted impacts. Strategies for environmental management in coastal zones, from low-lying wetlands to high cliffs and rocky promontories, are highlighted as a means of living in harmony with Nature and not trying to conquer it.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Flood damage prevention
ISBN : UCR:31210018996403