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Global Change and Integrated Coastal Management

The Asia-Pacific Region

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  • © 2006

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Editors:
  1. Nick Harvey

    1. University of Adelaide, Adelaide

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  • Addresses global change issues for Asia-Pacific coasts, perhaps the most important coastal region in the world
  • Identifies key coastal issues related to global change and coastal management in the Asia-Pacific region
  • Identifies key directions for coastal research in the region, in the context of the latest scientific knowledge on global change

Part of the book series: Coastal Systems and Continental Margins (CSCM, volume 10)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Importance of Global Change for Coastal Management in the Asia-Pacific Region

    • Nick Harvey, Nobuo Mimura
    Pages 1-15

  3. State of the Environment in the Asia and Pacific Coastal Zones and Effects of Global Change

    • Nobuo Mimura
    Pages 17-38

  4. Coastal Management in The Asia-Pacific Region

    • Nick Harvey, Mike Hilton
    Pages 39-66

  5. Catchment–Coast Interactions in the Asia-Pacific Region

    • Shu Gao
    Pages 67-92

  6. Coastal Evolution in the Asia-Pacific Region

    • Patrick D. Nunn, Roselyn Kumar
    Pages 93-116

  7. Human Responses To Coastal Change in the Asia-Pacific Region

    • Patrick D. Nunn, Charles T. Keally, Caroline King, Jaya Wijaya, Renato Cruz
    Pages 117-161

  8. Hot Spots of Population Growth and Urbanisation in the Asia-Pacific Coastal Region

    • Poh Poh Wong, Lee Boon-Thong, Maggi W.H. Leung
    Pages 163-195

  9. Pressures On Rural Coasts in the Asia-Pacific Region

    • Liana Talaue-Mcmanus
    Pages 197-229

  10. Impacts of Pollutants in the Asia-Pacific Region

    • Kanayathu Koshy, Zafar Adeel, Murari Lal, Melchior Mataki
    Pages 231-276

  11. Landscape Variability and the Response of Asian Megadeltas to Environmental Change

    • Colin D. Woodroffe, Robert J. Nicholls, Yoshiki Saito, Zhongyuan Chen, Steven L. Goodbred
    Pages 277-314

  12. New Directions for Global Change Research Related to Integrated Coastal Management in the Asia-Pacific Region

    • Nick Harvey, Nobuo Mimura
    Pages 315-334

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 335-339
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About this book

Most of the world’s population lives close to the coast and is highly dependent on coastal resources, which are being exploited at unsustainable rates. These resources are being subject to further pressures associated with population increase and the globalization of coastal resource demand. This is particularly so for the Asia-Pacific region which contains almost two thirds of the world’s population and most of the world’s coastal megacities. The region has globally important atmospheric and oceanic phenomena, which affect world climate such as the Asian Monsoon and the El-Niño Southern Oscillation phenomena. The Asia-Pacific region also has highly significant marine diversity but over the last few decades, coastal resources such as mangroves, coral reefs and fisheries have experienced large-scale depletion. The need to find appropriate management solutions to these and other coastal issues is made more complex by the need to take account of international scientific predictions for global climate change and sea-level rise which will further impact on these coasts. The idea for this book arose from a meeting of coastal scientists in Kobe, Japan in May 2003. The meeting was organized by the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN), an inter-governmental network, comprising 21 member countries, for the promotion of global change research and links between science and policy making in the region.

Reviews

From the reviews:

"There is a clear message that emphasizes the need for understanding of coastal process relationships in an integrated manner, such as physical catchment and coast interactions, and social interactions relating to economics, tourism and cultural values, while also emphasizing the need for participation in coastal management through different levels of the community (local through to national). .... Another strength of Global Change and Integrated Coastal Management is the geographical nature of the content. This book brings together socio-economic, cultural and physical environmental change. This is an advantage over other coastal texts currently available, and globalizes its value to all coastal scientists."
(Martin Shingle, New Zealand Geographer, Vol. 68 (2), 2008)

"Global Change and Integrated Coastal Management is a synthesis of scientific findings from research funded by the Asia-Pacific network for global change research (APN). … For students of coastal management, the book gives a very good description of ICM methodology and is worth including in studying a range of coastal management methods. ... it does have a wider appeal to students and practitioners of coastal management (globally) for comparative approaches to coastal management concepts." (Martin Single, New Zealand Geographical Society, Vol. 68 (2), 2008)

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  • University of Adelaide, Adelaide

    Nick Harvey

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