Editors:
- Provides state-of-the-art understanding of the state of the environment
- Structural approach consisting of drivers, state, and responses to the coastal environmental changes
- Describes both local and global trends including climate change and sea-level rise
- Provides an objective basis of the perspective using the latest data
- Gives good practices to indicate desirable future direction of coastal management for the Asia and Pacific region
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Coastal Systems and Continental Margins (CSCM, volume 11)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The Asia-Pacific region is home to the world’s largest region of coral reefs and mangroves. It accommodates two-thirds of the world’s human population and its economic activities have the highest growth rate in the world. Ongoing degradation of the environment, resulting from coastal development, deforestation, desertification and over-harvesting, are becoming a matter of great concern, as floods and droughts occur as a result of this degradation. The Asia-Pacific region also includes part of the ‘Pacific Rim of Fire’ and is, therefore, vulnerable to earthquakes and tsunamis, as the world became aware following the Sumatra earthquake and tsunami on 26 December 2004. Threats of global environmental change, such as climate change and sea-level rise, will exacerbate such problems. Therefore, appropriate policies and measures are needed for coastal management, to address both the local and global trends. This book gives an overview of the state-of-the-art understanding on the drivers, state, and responses to coastal environmental changes in the Asia-Pacific region. It provides excellent perspectives on current and anticipated environmental changes in the region’s coastal areas, to researchers, students, policy makers, coastal managers and other stakeholders.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"The book deals with environmental problems and provides perspective on conservation and sustainable development. Regional conditions are highlighted. An excellent book." (A. A. Dordrecht, Built Environment, Issue 22, January-December, 2008)
Editors and Affiliations
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Ibaraki University, Hitachi, Japan
Nobuo Mimura
About the editor
Editor is member of:
- American Society of Civil Engineers
- Coastal Education and Research Foundation
- Japanese Society of Civil Engineers
- Japanese Association for Coastal Studies
- Japanese Geomorphologic Union
Editor is active (board) member of:
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- International EMECS Center
- Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research
- Mitigation and Adaptation Strategy for Global Change
- Global Environmental Change
- Journal of Coastal Change
- Journal of Global Environmental Engineering
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Asia-Pacific Coasts and Their Management
Book Subtitle: States of Environment
Editors: Nobuo Mimura
Series Title: Coastal Systems and Continental Margins
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-3625-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3626-2Published: 21 January 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-8911-1Published: 28 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3625-5Published: 14 January 2008
Series ISSN: 1384-6434
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 367
Topics: Oceanography, Environmental Management, Regional/Spatial Science, Climate Change, Geoecology/Natural Processes