Really Natural Books: Global Coastal Change

Global Coastal Change is a comprehensive discussion of how coastlines around the world are being affected by climate change. Each chapter provides "real-world" examples and evidence-based research on the changes that are occurring on coastal regions from "atmospheric changes, sea level rise, alterations in freshwater and sediment use and transport, toxins, overfishing, alien species, and eutrophication".

The central facts about change in the coastal zones of the world are that:  i) there are increasingly more people in the world and their activities have historically been focused at the land/sea boundary, for biological, cultural, economic, and geographic reasons; and ii) these people consume resources...The changes generated by humans, moreover, have, during the 20th century, become large enough to exceed the changes pressed upon coastal environments by "natural" or non-anthropogenic forces.

Written by Ivan Valiela, Global Coastal Change also offers possible solutions to the problems facing the world's coastlines.

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