The Environment in Asia Pacific Harbours

✍ Scribed by Eric Wolanski FTSE, FIE Aust (auth.), Eric Wolanski PhD, DSc, FTSE, FIE Aust (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 494
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Urbanization has already reached unprecedented levels in the estuarine and coastal zone of the Asia Pacific region where mega-cities and mega-harbours have developed and are still growing. Environmental degradation is significant and growing. The social, economic and environmental problems are pressing and call for science-based solutions. This book details how science can provide solutions so that economic and social developments can be ecologically sustainable. Twelve sites are discussed in detail, integrating physics and biology, and between science and engineering. In turn these are linked to economic and social issues. These sites are Tokyo Bay, the Pearl Estuary, Hong Kong, Shanghai and the Yangtze delta, Klang, Manila Bay, Jakarta Bay, Pearl Harbor, Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok and the upper Gulf of Thailand, Singapore, and Darwin. This is the shoreline of about 50 million people and the coastal waters of about 500 million people. Sixty prominent scientists and engineers in universities and research centres in all these cities contributed the chapters in this book.

These lessons are fundamentally important for the Asia Pacific region, and they will also substantially inform similar analyses of mega-cities, port and harbour management and practices worldwide.

✦ Table of Contents

Increasing Trade and Urbanisation of the Asia Pacific Coast....Pages 1-13
Tokyo Bay: Its Environmental Status — Past, Present, and Future....Pages 15-34
Ecological Network Linked by the Planktonic Larvae of the Clam Ruditapes Philippinarum in Tokyo Bay....Pages 35-45
Circulation Processes in Tokyo Bay....Pages 47-65
Effects of Oceanic Water Intrusion on the Tokyo Bay Environment....Pages 67-78
Influence of the Deep Waterway Project on the Changjiang Estuary....Pages 79-92
Impact of Human Activities on the Health of Ecosystems in the Changjiang Delta Region....Pages 93-111
Geographical and Economical Setting of the Pearl River Estuary....Pages 113-125
Physical Processes and Sediment Dynamics in the Pearl River....Pages 127-137
Water Quality and Phytoplankton Blooms in the Pearl River Estuary....Pages 139-145
Pollution Studies on Mangroves in Hong Kong and Mainland China....Pages 147-163
Field and Model Studies of Water Quality in Hong Kong....Pages 165-186
Eutrophication Dynamics in Hong Kong Coastal Waters: Physical and Biological Interactions....Pages 187-206
Marine Communities and Introduced Species in Pearl Harbor, O’ahu, Hawai’i....Pages 207-228
Physical Environment in the Gulf of Thailand with Emphasis on Three Important Ports....Pages 229-247
Environmental Issues in the Gulf of Thailand....Pages 249-259
The Environment in Ho Chi Minh City Harbours....Pages 261-291
Biophysical Environment of Manila Bay — Then and Now....Pages 293-307
Manila Bay: Environmental Challenges and Opportunities....Pages 309-328
Carbon Flux Through Bacteria in a Eutrophic Tropical Environment: Port Klang Waters....Pages 329-345
Phytoplankton Structure in the Tropical Port Waters of Singapore....Pages 347-375
Marine Habitats in One of the World’s Busiest Harbours....Pages 377-391
The Physical Oceanography of Singapore Coastal Waters and Its Implications for Oil Spills....Pages 393-412
Managing the Port of Jakarta Bay: Overcoming the Legacy of 400 Years of Adhoc Development....Pages 413-431
Darwin Harbour: Water Quality and Ecosystem Structure on a Tropical Harbour in the Early Stages of Urban Development....Pages 433-459
Hydrodynamics of Darwin Harbour....Pages 461-476
An Estuarine Ecohydrology Model of Darwin Harbour, Australia....Pages 477-488
Is Harbour Development Ecologically Sustainable?....Pages 489-493

✦ Subjects

Ecology; Oceanography; Physical Geography; Marine Ecology; Engineering Fluid Dynamics; Environment, general