Coastal Risk Management in a Changing Climate
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 670
ISBN-13: 9780123973108
Subjects: Coastal zone management; Climatic changes; Coastal engineering; Coast changes
Description: "Existing coastal management and defense approaches are not well suited to meet the challenges of climate change and related uncertanities. Professionals in this field need a more dynamic, systematic and multidisciplinary approach. Written by an international group of experts, Coastal Risk Assessment and Mitigation in a Changing Climate provides innovative, multidisciplinary best practices for mitigating the effects of climate change on coastal structures. Based on the Theseus program, the book includes eight study sites across Europe, with specific attention to the most vulnerable coastal environments such as deltas, estuaries and wetlands, where many large cities and industrial areas are located"--