Managing European Coasts: Past, Present and Future

✍ Scribed by Laure Ledoux, Jan E. Vermaat, Laurens M. Bouwer, Wim Salomons (auth.), Jan Vermaat, Wim Salomons, Laurens Bouwer, Kerry Turner (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 401
• Series: Environmental Science
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

ELOISE research and the implementation of EU policy in the coastal zone....Pages 1-19
Land-ocean fluxes and coastal ecosystems — a guided tour of ELOISE results....Pages 21-58
Defining a good ecological status of coastal waters — a case study for the Elbe plume....Pages 59-74
Bathing water quality....Pages 75-101
Establishing coastal and marine reserves — with the emphasis on fisheries....Pages 103-117
Valuing Coastal Systems....Pages 119-136
Group report: Methodologies to support implementation of the water framework directive....Pages 137-152
The EU Water Framework Directive: Challenges for institutional implementation....Pages 153-171
Inclusive and community participation in the coastal zone: Opportunities and dangers....Pages 173-184
Group report: Institutional and capacity requirements for implementation of the Water Framework Directory....Pages 185-198
Climate change and coastal management on Europe's coast....Pages 199-226
Assessment and monitoring requirements for the adaptive management of Europe's regional seas....Pages 227-237
Group report: Global change and the European coast — climate change and economic development....Pages 239-254
Integrated environmental assessment and coastal futures....Pages 255-270
Group report: Integrated assessment and future scenarios for the coast....Pages 271-290
Tourism development in the Costa Brava (Girona, Spain) — how integrated coastal zone management may rejuvenate its lifecycle....Pages 291-314
Management of contaminated dredged material in the port of Rotterdam....Pages 315-322
Integrated assessment for catchment and coastal zone management: The case of the Humber....Pages 323-353
The impact of subsidence and sea level rise in the Wadden Sea: Prediction and field verification....Pages 355-363
The need for integrated assessment of large-scale offshore wind farm development....Pages 365-378
Group report: Reflections on the application of integrated assessment....Pages 379-387

✦ Subjects

Geochemistry;Biogeosciences;Oceanography