Climate ChangeImpact on Coastal Habitation

ISBN-13: 9780873713016 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 272 str.

Doeke Eisma;Eisma; Eisma Eisma

Opis

Temperature and precipitation increase and decrease because of natural causes. However, anthropogenic changes, such as an enhanced greenhouse effect, may result in alterations in the regional climate and in relative sea level. Serious changes in climate and sea level-with adverse effects particularly along low-lying coasts-would affect millions of people. Climate Change takes an in-depth, worldwide look at coastal habitation with respect to these natural and anthropogenic changes.
No universally applicable coastal model can be used to describe climatic changes. This unique book provides individual discussions of beaches and barrier islands, cliffs, deltas, tidal flats and wetlands, reefs, and atolls. The impact of climatic change on coastal ecology and agriculture is investigated, and human responses to the effects of climatic change along the world's coasts are included.

Spis treści

Introduction, D. EismaThe World Heat Budget: Expected Changes, C.J.E. SchuurmansRecorded Sea Level Variability in the Holocene and Expected Future Changes, N.-A. MörnerPresent and Future Sea Level: The Effects of Predicted Global Changes, E.C.F. BirdRiver Flux to the Sea: Impact of Human Intervention on River Systems and Adjacent Coastal Areas, J.D. Milliman and M. RenResponse of Estuaries to Climate Change, K.R. DyerEffects of Sea Level Rise on Coastal Sedimentation and Erosion, J.T. WellsSea Level Rise: A Worldwide Assessment of Risk and Protection Costs, F.M.J. Hoozemans and C.H. HulsbergenImpact of Climatic Change on Coastal Cities, T.J. DeelstraImpact of Climate Change on the Ecology of Temperate Coastal Wetlands, Beaches, and Dunes, V. Noest, E. van der Maarel, and F. van der MeulenImpact of Climatic Change on Coral Reefs, Mangroves, and Tropical Seagrass Ecosystems, A.J. EdwardsImpact of Climatic Change on Coastal Agriculture, R. BrinkmanIndex

O autorze

Eisma\, Doeke