Coastal World Heritage Sites

This book presents the natural, environmental and scenic richness of the world’s coastal and marine areas classified by UNESCO as “Natural World Heritage Sites”. Representing well-preserved areas of exceptional significance to the planet and to humankind, they include a total of 49 marine sites, formed by reefs, atolls and gulfs, and 35 coastal sites in all oceans and all continents with exception of Antarctica. They are being protected and preserved from most degrading uses for future generations as an important legacy from the past. Exploring their richness, this book analyzes and explains these sites in a clear, understandable, scientific way, and is of interest to all who work in or care about the geosciences, environmental sciences and biosciences.

• Coastal Landscapes
• Coastal World Heritage
• Coastal geomorphosites
• Coastal geosites
• UNESCO world coastal areas
• coastal sciences
• marine and freshwater sciences
• world regional geography

• Federal University of Ceará State, Fortaleza, Brazil

  Vanda Claudino-Sales

Vanda Claudino-Sales is a geographer who holds a PhD in Environmental Geography from the Sorbonne University, Paris, and a post-doctorate in Coastal Geomorphology from the University of South Florida, USA. She is a retired professor of the Department of Geography of the Federal University of Ceara and a visiting professor at the Department of Geography of the State University of Acarau Valley, in Brazil. She was a visiting professor at the Department of Geography at the Sorbonne and at the Coastal Laboratory of the University of South Florida. She is Vice-President for South America of the Coastal and Educational Research Foundation – CERF. She also participates in environmental activism in Brazil. Her research focuses on geoscience, coastal geomorphology, megageomorphology and geoconservation. 

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