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Changing Land Use Patterns in the Coastal Zone

Managing Environmental Quality in Rapidly Developing Regions

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  • © 2006

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Editors:
  1. G. S. Kleppel

    1. Department of Biological Sciences, University at Albany State University of New York, Albany, USA

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  2. M. Richard DeVoe

    1. Sea Grant Consortium, Charleston, USA

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  3. Mac V. Rawson

    1. Georga Sea Grant Program, University of Georga, Athens, USA

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  • Offers creative solutions to problems of sustainable development in coastal regions
  • Unique interdisciplinary text: facilitates vital information flow between environmental data-collectors, planners and policy makers
  • For scientists: features technical reviews of disciplines involved
  • For urban planners, resource managers and government officials: includes non-technical summaries and relevant chapters

Part of the book series: Springer Series on Environmental Management (SSEM)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Introduction—The Effects of Changing Land Use Patterns on Marine Resources: Setting a Research Agenda to Facilitate Management

    1. Introduction—The Effects of Changing Land Use Patterns on Marine Resources: Setting a Research Agenda to Facilitate Management

      • M. Richard DeVoe, G. S. Kleppel
      Pages 1-19

  3. Trends in Coastal Population Growth—Policies and Predictions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 22-22
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    2. Trends in Land Use Policy and Development in the Coastal Southeast

      • G. S. Kleppel, Robert H. Becker, Jeffery S. Allen, Kang Shou Lu
      Pages 23-45

    3. Predicting Trajectories of Urban Growth in the Coastal Southeast

      • Jeffery S. Allen, Kang Shou Lu
      Pages 47-67

    4. Urban Typology and Estuarine Biodiversity in Rapidly Developing Coastal Watersheds

      • G. S. Kleppel, Dwayne E. Porter, M. Richard DeVoe
      Pages 69-89

  4. Coastal Hydrology and Geochemistry

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
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    2. The Relationship of Hydrodynamics to Morphology in Tidal Creek and Salt Marsh Systems of South Carolina and Georgia

      • Jackson O. Blanton, Francisco Andrade, M. Adelaide Ferreira
      Pages 93-107

    3. The Role of Tidal Wetlands in Estuarine Nutrient Cycling

      • Hank N. McKellar Jr., Delma Bratvold
      Pages 109-137

    4. Evaluating the Potential Importance of Groundwater-Derived Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus Inputs to South Carolina and Georgia Coastal Ecosystems

      • Samantha B. Joye, Deborah A. Bronk, Dirk J. Koopmans, Willard S. Moore
      Pages 139-178

    5. Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, and Estuarine Condition

      • Lawrence R. Pomeroy, Wei-Jun Cai
      Pages 179-201

  5. Contaminants and Their Effects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203
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    2. Chemical Contaminants Entering Estuaries in the South Atlantic Bight as a Result of Current and Past Land Use

      • Richard F. Lee, Keith A. Maruya
      Pages 205-227

    3. Models of Coastal Stress: Review and Future Challenges

      • Thomas C. Siewicki
      Pages 229-252

    4. Alternatives to Coliform Bacteria as Indicators of Human Impact on Coastal Ecosystems

      • Marc E. Frischer, Peter G. Verity
      Pages 253-284

  6. Afterword—Managing Coastal Urbanization and Development in the Twenty-First Century: The Need for a New Paradigm

    1. Afterword—Managing Coastal Urbanization and Development in the Twenty-First Century: The Need for a New Paradigm

      • Geoffrey I. Scott, A. Frederick Holland, Paul A. Sandifer
      Pages 285-299

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 301-305
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About this book

Coastal ecosystems make up some of the most important and, yet, most endangered, regions in the world. The protection of the unique processes that take place in these ecosystems requires that partnerships be formed among ecologists, resource managers and planners.

Experienced in the challenges of coastal system analysis, the contributors to this book provide multidisciplinary guidance on the assessment and management of environmental impacts caused by development. Each chapter examines an issue important to these fragile ecosystems, first presenting a non-technical summary of the issue and a review of the current state of the knowledge, then following with data and a more detailed consideration of the topic. Functioning both as a practical guide, accessible to nonscientists, and as a rigorous scientific source book, Changing Land Use Patterns in the Coastal Zone will be useful to ecologists, urban and regional planners, resource managers, policymakers and students. While many of the case studies included in this volume are drawn from studies in the southeastern United States, the examples and lessons provided will be relevant to those working in all coastal environments.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Biological Sciences, University at Albany State University of New York, Albany, USA

    G. S. Kleppel

  • Sea Grant Consortium, Charleston, USA

    M. Richard DeVoe

  • Georga Sea Grant Program, University of Georga, Athens, USA

    Mac V. Rawson

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