Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science, Seven Volume Set is the most up-to-date reference work for system based coastal and estuarine ecosystem science and management. It addresses the big issues facing the estuaries and coastal zone; in particular how to best use multi- and inter-disciplinary science to ensure the sustainability of the environment. It focusses on the need to protect and maintain the natural functioning of the estuaries and coasts worldwide while delivering the ecosystem services from which society extract goods and benefits.
Structured chapters, written by leaders in the field, include reference lists and additional reading, copious diagrams, case-studies, and especially provide synthesis diagrams and conceptual models of complex issues. The Treatise covers both the natural and social sciences, serving a wide audience which ranges from undergraduate students to established researchers and practitioners. The work avoids autecological studies but focusses on inter-linked physical-chemical-biological-ecosystem processes and associated socio-economic issues in the coastal zone. It examines estuaries and coasts, and their interactions and feedbacks with humanity, from the inland catchment/river basin to the ocean shelf.
The new edition builds on and expands the previous version with significant updates and a whole new section on Climate Change and Coastal Ecosystems, covering the resistance and resilience of the estuaries, coasts and other transitional habitats to climate change, thereby determining changes and responses needed over the coming decades.
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Table of Contents
1. Coastal Ecosystem Diversity (Classification of Estuarine and Near-shore Coastal Ecosystems).Section Editors: Alan Whitfield and Michael Elliott
2. Physical Aspects (Water, Solute and Sediment Transport, Geology and Geomorphology).
Section Editors: Steve Mitchell, Reg Uncles and Jon French
3. Biogeochemical Cycling (Land-Ocean Interaction and Biogeochemical Cycling of Elements in Estuarine and Coastal Waters and Sediments).
Section Editor: Tim Jennerjahn
4. Structure and Function of Biological Communities and Coastal Ecosystems (Biological Communities and Trophic Relationships in Coastal Ecosystems; Functioning of Ecosystems at the Land-Ocean Interface; Aspects of Ecohydrology).
Section Editor: Daniel Baird
5. Modelling and Prediction (Estuarine and Coastal Ecosystem Modelling).
Section Editors: Ursula Scharler and Daniel Baird
6. Problems, Solutions and Restoration (Human-induced problems; Human Population in the Coastal Zone; Impacts and Restoration).
Section Editors: Michael Kennish and Michael Elliott
7. Management, Governance and Socio-economics (Values and Benefits of Estuaries and Coasts; Estuarine and Coastal Governance).
Section Editors: Bruce Glavovic and Nicola Beaumont
