Overview
- Uniquely fuses coastal and estuarine studies, environmental sciences and earth sciences
- Of interest to a wide audience of researchers and post graduate students
- Contains a rich resource of unpublished data, examples and illustrations
Part of the book series: Coastal Research Library (COASTALRL, volume 11)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book is the outcome of rigorous and continuous research work done by the author over about three decades on the open ecosystem and dynamic environment of the estuarine Sunderbans. The objective of this work is to identify the field and factors changing gradually upon this active delta over the years, decades and centuries. The deltaic Sunderbans yet not mature enough, has been changing in its natural course with time. Further, anthropogenic interferences disturb the environments and accelerate degradation of nature of this fragile ecosystem simultaneously. Roles played by almost all the agents including man and environment and their involvement are identified for the changing environmental scenario of the Sunderbans.
The book is befitted for the researchers and students for the post graduate levels.
The Sunderbans, a UNESCO World Heritage Site covering parts of Bangladesh and the southern tip of Indian state of West Bengal, is a part of world's largest deltaic plain of fluvio-marine deposit formed by the Ganges and Brahmaputra at the confluence of the Bay of Bengal. It is the largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest in the world, conspicuous for its great size and biodiversity. With an enormous network of channels and creeks, tidal inundation twice daily, Sunderbans mangroves wetland is a dynamic and complex ecosystem, which undergoes continuous processes of erosion and accretion. Natural processes like changes in local hydrology, sediment motion under wind, wave and tidal action, beach dynamics, regional and global processes like sea level rise as well as the impact of human interference in the form of reclamation of forest land, changes in land use patterns, coastal urbanizations etc are the lead factors for the changes in the environmental scenario of Sunderbans.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Estuarine Morphodynamics of the Sunderbans
Authors: Gautam Kumar Das
Series Title: Coastal Research Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11343-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-11342-5Published: 03 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36343-1Published: 10 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-11343-2Published: 21 October 2014
Series ISSN: 2211-0577
Series E-ISSN: 2211-0585
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 211
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour
Topics: Coastal Sciences, Marine & Freshwater Sciences, Oceanography, Geomorphology