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This book is devoted to the most important and urgent problems that arise during the development of the coasts of the cold seas. The most important result of the work is the creation of an engineering-oriented concept of morpholithodynamics of the shores of the Arctic and subarctic seas and the forecast of coastal development in conditions of rapid natural and anthropogenic changes. The established patterns of development of the coastal zone in the coordinate system of the concept of contact zones of different types of sea, seas and ocean open up new opportunities for improving the theory and methodology of cognition of the natural environment and the relief of the coastal zone as the basis for the life of society and ensuring sustainable development in these regions. In addition to theoretical significance, the established patterns have a pronounced applied aspect—solving infrastructure safety problems, coastal protection and marine logistics, risk assessment and planning of economic activities on the coast, creation of natural and economic accounting systems. Using the example of the Far Eastern region of Russia, the issues of anthropogenic transformation of coastal morpholithosystems are considered. The results of theoretical constructions and modeling of morpholithodynamic processes are used to determine the quantitative parameters of the carbon cycle of biomorpholithosystems of the coastal zone and adjacent marine areas, in conditions of accelerating evolutionary changes and increasing anthropogenic load. This makes it possible to switch to controlled climatic activities for the absorption of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, accumulation, transformation and long-term burial of autochthonous and allochthonous organic carbon using nature-like technologies on created coastal marine wetlands (carbon farms). The book is addressed to specialists in the development and implementation of projects related to investment, construction, natural and climatic activities, modernization of housing, communal, industrial, transport, social, energy and other infrastructure in coastal areas in high latitudes. It can be useful for students and postgraduates studying in the specialties of geomorphological engineering, hydrotechnical and climatic directions.
List of contents
Study and general characterisation of the North Pacific seashores.- Morphology and dynamics of the shores of the contact zone of temperate and subarctic seas.- Patterns of coastal destruction at the present stage.- Beach formation and distribution of its wave-absorbing properties along the shore.
About the author
Tatiana Chaplina, Doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, graduated from the Faculty of Physics at Lomonosov Moscow State University. She is Director of Quaternion Publishing House. Her area of scientific interests is geology, geophysics, geosciences, earth sciences, physical processes in the hydrosphere, anthropogenic impact on the hydrosphere. She is Author of more than 200 publications, including 40 monographs, textbooks and teaching aids. She is one of the organizers of the International Youth Conference-School “Physical and Mathematical Modeling of Processes in Geomedia”, the All-Russian Conference “Irreversible Processes in Nature and Technology” and others. She is Member of the editorial board of the journals: Environment and Energy Science, Processes in Geomedia. She is Author of several monographs and Editor of collections published in the publishing Springer.
Summary
This book is devoted to the most important and urgent problems that arise during the development of the coasts of the cold seas. The most important result of the work is the creation of an engineering-oriented concept of morpholithodynamics of the shores of the Arctic and subarctic seas and the forecast of coastal development in conditions of rapid natural and anthropogenic changes. The established patterns of development of the coastal zone in the coordinate system of the concept of contact zones of different types of sea, seas and ocean open up new opportunities for improving the theory and methodology of cognition of the natural environment and the relief of the coastal zone as the basis for the life of society and ensuring sustainable development in these regions. In addition to theoretical significance, the established patterns have a pronounced applied aspect—solving infrastructure safety problems, coastal protection and marine logistics, risk assessment and planning of economic activities on the coast, creation of natural and economic accounting systems. Using the example of the Far Eastern region of Russia, the issues of anthropogenic transformation of coastal morpholithosystems are considered. The results of theoretical constructions and modeling of morpholithodynamic processes are used to determine the quantitative parameters of the carbon cycle of biomorpholithosystems of the coastal zone and adjacent marine areas, in conditions of accelerating evolutionary changes and increasing anthropogenic load. This makes it possible to switch to controlled climatic activities for the absorption of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, accumulation, transformation and long-term burial of autochthonous and allochthonous organic carbon using nature-like technologies on created coastal marine wetlands (carbon farms). The book is addressed to specialists in the development and implementation of projects related to investment, construction, natural and climatic activities, modernization of housing, communal, industrial, transport, social, energy and other infrastructure in coastal areas in high latitudes. It can be useful for students and postgraduates studying in the specialties of geomorphological engineering, hydrotechnical and climatic directions.
