Climate ChangeImpact on Coastal Habitation

This book is concerned with the effects of climatic change on the coast and on coastal habitation. It points out that a relatively small rise of sea level may have a strong effect where the coast is low and/or subsiding.

List of contents

1. The World Heat Budget: Expected Changes 2. Recorded Sea Level Variability in the Holocene and Expected Future Changes 3. Present and Future Sea Level: The Effects of Predicted Global Changes 4. River Flux to the Sea: Impact of Human Intervention on River Systems and Adjacent Coastal Areas 5. Response of Estuaries to Climate Change 6. Effects of Sea Level Rise on Coastal Sedimentation and Erosion 7. Sea Level Rise: A Worldwide Assessment of Risk and Protection Costs 8. Impact of Climatic Change on Coastal Cities 9. Impact of Climatic Change on the Ecology of Temperate Coastal Wetlands, Beaches, and Dunes 10. Impact of Climatic Change on Coral Reefs, Mangroves, and Tropical Sea grass Ecosystems 11. Impact of Climatic Change on Coastal Agriculture

About the author

Eisma\, Doeke

Summary

This book is concerned with the effects of climatic change on the coast and on coastal habitation. It points out that a relatively small rise of sea level may have a strong effect where the coast is low and/or subsiding.

Product details

• Authors: Doeke Eisma, Eisma Doeke
• Assisted by: Doeke Eisma (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.02.1995
• EAN: 9780873713016
• ISBN: 978-0-87371-301-6
• No. of pages: 270
• Weight: 566 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Oceanography, Pollution & threats to the environment, Conservation of the environment, Meteorology & climatology, Meteorology and climatology, Pollution and threats to the environment, Oceanography (seas and oceans), Oceanography (seas)