Managing European Coasts

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXII

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2. ELOISE research and the implementation of EU policy in the coastal zone

   • Laure Ledoux, Jan E. Vermaat, Laurens M. Bouwer, Wim Salomons, R. Kerry Turner

   Pages 1-19

3. Land-ocean fluxes and coastal ecosystems — a guided tour of ELOISE results

   • Peter M.J. Herman, Tom Ysebaert, Carlo H.R. Heip

   Pages 21-58

4. Defining a good ecological status of coastal waters — a case study for the Elbe plume

   • Wilhelm Windhorst, Franciscus Colijn, Saa Kabuta, Remi P.W.M. Laane, Hermann-Josef Lenhart

   Pages 59-74

5. Bathing water quality

   • Stavros Georgiou

   Pages 75-101

6. Establishing coastal and marine reserves — with the emphasis on fisheries

   • Han Lindeboom, Saara Bäck

   Pages 103-117

7. Valuing Coastal Systems

   • Mihalis S. Skourtos, Areti D. Kontogianni, Stavros Georgiou, R. Kerry Turner

   Pages 119-136

8. Group report: Methodologies to support implementation of the water framework directive

   • Paula S. Moschella, Remi P.W.M. Laane, Saara Bäck, Horst Behrendt, Giuseppe Bendoricchio, Stavros Georgiou et al.

   Pages 137-152

9. The EU Water Framework Directive: Challenges for institutional implementation

   • Erwin F.L.M. de Bruin, Frank G.W. Jaspers, Joyeeta Gupta

   Pages 153-171

10. Inclusive and community participation in the coastal zone: Opportunities and dangers

    • Tim O'Riordan

    Pages 173-184

11. Group report: Institutional and capacity requirements for implementation of the Water Framework Directory

    • Wietze Lise, Jos Timmerman, Jan E. Vermaat, Tim O'Riordan, Tony Edwards, Erwin F.L.M. de Bruin et al.

    Pages 185-198

12. Climate change and coastal management on Europe's coast

    • Robert J. Nicholls, Richard J.T. Klein

    Pages 199-226

13. Assessment and monitoring requirements for the adaptive management of Europe's regional seas

    • Laurence D. Mee

    Pages 227-237

14. Group report: Global change and the European coast — climate change and economic development

    • Emma Rochelle-Newall, Richard J.T. Klein, Robert J. Nicholls, Kevin Barrett, Horst Behrendt, Ton H.M. Bresser et al.

    Pages 239-254

15. Integrated environmental assessment and coastal futures

    • R. Kerry Turner

    Pages 255-270

16. Group report: Integrated assessment and future scenarios for the coast

    • Corinna Nunneri, R. Kerry Turner, Andrzej Cieslak, Andreas Kannen, Richard J. T. Klein, Laure Ledoux et al.

    Pages 271-290

17. Tourism development in the Costa Brava (Girona, Spain) — how integrated coastal zone management may rejuvenate its lifecycle

    • Rafael Sardá, Joan Mora, Conxita Avila

    Pages 291-314

18. Management of contaminated dredged material in the port of Rotterdam

    • Tiedo Vellinga, Marc Eisma

    Pages 315-322

19. Integrated assessment for catchment and coastal zone management: The case of the Humber

    • Julian Andrews, Nicola Beaumont, Roy Brouwer, Rachel Cave, Tim Jickells, Laure Ledoux et al.

    Pages 323-353

20. The impact of subsidence and sea level rise in the Wadden Sea: Prediction and field verification

    • Joop M. Marquenie, Jaap de Vlas

    Pages 355-363

Coastal zones play a key role in Earth System functioning and form an “edge for society” providing a significant contribution to the life support systems. Goods and services derived from coastal systems depend strongly on multiple transboundary interactions with the land, atmosphere, open ocean and sea bottom. Increasing demands on coastal resources driven by human habitation, food security, recreation and transportation accelerate the exploitation of the coastal landscape and water bodies. Many coastal areas and human activities are subject to increasing risks from natural and man-induced hazards such as flooding resulting from major changes in hydrology of river systems that has reached a global scale. Changes in the hydrological cycle coupled with changes in land and water management alter fluxes of materials transmitted from river catchments to the coastal zone, which have a major effect on coastal ecosystems. The increasing complexity of underlying processes and forcing functions that drive changes on coastal systems are witnessed at a multiplicity of temporal and spatial scales.

• Bathing Water
• Coast
• Coastal Waters
• EU Policy
• Land-ocean Fluxes
• Ocean
• Water Framework Directive
• development
• ecosystems
• marine
• sea level
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Jan Vermaat, Wim Salomons, Laurens Bouwer

• CSERGE, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich UK, UK

  Kerry Turner

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