Global Change and Integrated Coastal Management The Asia-Pacific Reg
Most of the world’s population lives close to the coast and is highly dependent on coastal resources, which are being exploited at unsustainable rates. These resources are being subject to further pressures associated with population increase and the glob
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Global Change and Integrated Coastal Management The Asia-Pacific Region Edited by Nick Harvey
Global Change and Integrated Coastal Management
Coastal Systems and Continental Margins VOLUME 10
Series Editor Bilal U. Haq
Editorial Advisory Board M. Collins, Dept. of Oceanography, University of Southampton, U.K. D. Eisma, Emeritus Professor, Utrecht University and Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel, The Netherlands K.E. Louden, Dept. of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada J.D. Milliman, School of Marine Science, The College of William & Mary, Gloucester Point, VA, U.S.A. H.W. Posamentier, Anadarko Canada Corporation, Calgary, AB, Canada A. Watts, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, U.K.
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
Global Change and Integrated Coastal Management The Asia-Pacific Region
Edited by
Nick Harvey University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
A C.I.P Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN-10 1-4020-3627-2 (HB) ISBN-13 978-1-4020-3627-9 (HB) ISBN-10 1-4020-3628-0 (e-book) ISBN-13 978-1-4020-3628-6 (e-book) Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. www.springer.com
Cover Illustrations Main photo on left – Aerial photograph over the exposed ocean side of the southeastern rim of Tarawa Atoll, Kiribati (photograph Nick Harvey). Smaller photo on top right – Small scale land reclamation on the protected lagoon side of the southern rim of Tarawa Atoll, Kiribati. Coral blocks have been used to construct a retaining wall which is being filled with rubble and sand (photograph Nick Harvey). Smaller photograph at bottom right – Large scale reclamation and urban development on the coast of Kobe, Japan. The Osaka-Kobe megacity coastline has been significantly modified, with port development, reclamation, artificial islands and transport networks (photograph Nick Harvey).
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CONTENTS
Preface
vii
Message from the APN Secretariat
ix
List of Contributors
xi
Part 1 – The Asia-Pacific Coastal Zone 1. Importance of Global Change for Coastal Management in the Asia-Pacific Region Nick Harvey and Nobuo Mimura 2. State of the Environment in the Asia and Pacific Coastal Zones and Effects of Global Change Nobuo Mimura
1
17
Part 2 – New Directions in Research 3. Coastal Management in the Asia-Pacific Region Nick Harvey and Mike Hilton
39
4. Catchment–Coast Interactions in the Asia-Pacific Region Shu Gao
67
5. Coastal Evolution in the Asia-Pacific Region Patrick D. Nunn and Roselyn Kumar
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