Coastal hazards
By: Charles W. Finkl, editor
Series: Coastal research library -- volume 6.; Coastal research library -- volume 6.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Dordrecht; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 840
ISBN-13: 9789400752337
Subjects: Coastal zone management; Hazard mitigation; Hazardous geographic environments
Description: This book covers the gamut of coastal hazards that result from short-term low-frequency events and have high-magnitude and far-reaching impacts on coastal zones the world over. Much of the world’s population now lives in low-lying coastal zones that are inherently vulnerable to natural hazards such as flooding from hurricanes, tropical storms and northeastern storm surges; shoreline (beach and dune) erosion; cliff and bluff failures; and saltwater intrusion in coastal aquifers used for drinking water supplies. In addition to the usual range of hydrometeorological disasters in coastal zones, this book covers tsunami impacts and warning systems as well as global perspectives of sea-level rise impacts and human perceptions of potential vulnerabilities resulting from rip currents that cause many drownings each year on beaches. Today, the use of numerical models that help predict vulnerabilities and provide a basis for shore protection measures is important in modern scientific and engineering systems. Final considerations focus on human actions in the form of the urbanization and industrialization of the coast, shore protection measures, and indicate how environmental degradation around coastal conurbations exacerbates the potential for unwanted impacts. Strategies for environmental management in coastal zones, from low-lying wetlands to high cliffs and rocky promontories, are highlighted as a means of living in harmony with Nature and not trying to conquer it.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. The southeast Florida Coastal Zone (SFCZ): a cascade of natural, biological, and human-induced hazards / Charles W. Finkl and Christopher Makowski; title: 2. Remote sensing of coastal hazards / Victor V. Klemas; title: 3. Determination of human induced coastal changes using RS, GIS and geostatistics / Elif Sertel and Dursun Zafer Seker; title: 4. Coastal risk versus vulnerability in an uncertain sea level future / Michael S. Kearney; title: 5. Sea-level rise impacts and responses: a global perspective / Sally Brown, Robert J. Nicholls, Colin D. Woodroffe, Susan Hanson, Jochen Hinkel, Abiy S. Kebede, Barbara Neumann, and Athanasios T. Vafeidis; title: 6. Estimating the United States population at risk from coastal flood-related hazards / Mark Crowell, Jonathan Westcott, Susan Phelps, Tucker Mahoney, Kevin Coulton, and Dough Bellomo; title: 7. Public perception of hurricane-related hazards / Bernhard Lee Lindner and Charles Cockcroft; title: 8. Anthropogenic amplification of storm surge damage in th 1935 "Labor Day" hurricane / Nicholas K. Coch; title: 9. Coastal flooding hazard in low-tide and high-tide coasts; evidence from the North Aegean Coast / Sotiris A. Lycourghiotis and Stathis C. Stiros; title: 10. Sea level rise / James Houston; title: 11. Conceptualizing seawater intrusion processes in small tropical island via geochemical modeling / Ahmad Zaharin Aris and Sarva Mangala Praveena; title: 12. Reducing the risk associated to desalination brine disposal on the coastal areas of Red Sea / Adrian Ciocanea, Viorel Badescu, Richard B. Cathcart, and Charles W. Finkl; title: 13. Beach erosion: causes and stabilization / R.G. Dean, T.L. Walton, J.D. Rosati, and L. Absalonsen; title: 14. Innovative technique of predicting shoreline change in Developing Countries: case of Accra erosion and causal factors / Kwasi Appeaning-Addo and Emmanuel Lamptey; title: 15. Detection of coastal change by geo-informatics means / Jay Gao; title: 16. Spatial and numerical methodologies on coastal erosion and flooding risk assessment / Jarbas Bonetti, Antonio Henrique da Fontoura Klein, Mariela Muler, Clarissa Brelinger De Luca, Guilherme Vieira ea Silva, Elírio E. Toldo, Jr., and Mauricio González; title: 17. Coastal erosion and protection policies in Europe: from EU programme (Eurosion and interreg projects) to local management / Giovanni Randazzo, Jordi Serra Raventos, and Lanza Stefania; title: 18. Coastal dune hazards / Sara Muñoz Vallés and Jesús Cambrollé; title: 19. Erosion and management in coastal dunes / Silvia Cristina Marcomini and Ruben Alvaro López; title: 20. Coastal hazards from tropical cyclones and extratropical winter storms based on holocene storm chronologies / S.M. May, M. Engel, D. Brill, P. Squire, A. Scheffers, and D. Kelletat; title: 21. U.S. Pacific Northwest Coastal hazards: tectonic and climate controls / Paul D. Komar, Jonathan C. Allan, and Peter Ruggiero; title: 22. Extreme coastal waves, ocean surges and wave runnup / Zai-Jin You and Peter Nielsen; title: 23. Effects of stratification on multi-layered tsunami waves / Monzur A. Imteaz, Fatemeh Mekanik, and Amimul Ahsan; title: 24. The hazards of beach litter / A.T. Williams, K. Pond, A. Ergin, and M.J. Cullis; title: 25. Coastal hazards from oil spills / Erich R. Gundlach; title: 26. Rip currents / Stephen P. Leatherman.