Masselink / Gehrels Coastal Environments and Global Change

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-82510-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 448 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Works

The coastal zone is one of the most dynamic environments on ourplanet and is much affected by global change, especially sea-levelrise. Coastal environments harbour valuable ecosystems, but theyare also hugely important from a societal point of view. This book,which draws on the expertise of 21 leading international coastalscientists, represents an up-to-date account of coastalenvironments and past, present and future impacts of global change.The first chapter of the book outlines key principles that underpincoastal systems and their behaviour. This is followed by adiscussion of key processes, including sea level change,sedimentation, storms, waves and tides, that drive coastal change.The main part of the book consists of a discussion of the maincoastal environments (beaches, dunes, barriers, salt marshes, tidalflats, estuaries, coral reefs, deltas, rocky and glaciated coastsand coastal groundwater), and how these are affected by globalchange. The final chapter highlights strategies for coping withcoastal change.
Readership: final year undergraduate and postgraduate-levelstudents on coastal courses in a wide range subjects, includinggeography, environmental management, geology, oceanography andcoastal/civil engineering. The book will also be a valuableresource for researchers and applied scientists dealing withcoastal environments.
Additional resources for this book can be found at: www.wiley.com/go/masselink/coastal

Autoren/Hrsg.

Masselink, Gerd

Gehrels, Roland

Über Autor(innen)

Gerd Masselink is a Professor in Coastal Geomorphologyand Associate Head of Marine Science in the School of MarineScience and Engineering at Plymouth University, UK. Gerdspecialises in nearshore sediment transport processes, surf zonehydrodynamics and beach morphodynamics.
Roland Gehrels is a Professor in Physical Geography at theUniversity of York, UK. He studies sea-level changes over varioustimescales, but has a particular interest in regional sea-levelvariability during past centuries. Roland is the President of theCommission on Coastal and Marine Processes of the InternationalQuaternary Union (INQUA).
The Editors have published over 160 peer-reviewed articles incoastal and sea-level research.