Management and Sustainable Development of Coastal Zone Environments

Contents: Foreword. Preface. I. Evaluation, status prediction, modelling and developments of coastal zones: management issues: 1. Observational needs for sustainable coastal prediction and management/Raghu Murtugudde. 2. Ecological modelling as a tool for coastal ecosystem management/Wen Long. 3. Current status of coastal zone management practices in India/S. Swarna Latha and M. Bala Krishna Prasad. 4. Climate resilient coast zone development in Bangladesh: participatory governance for common resources management/Paramesh Nandy and M. Aminul Islam. 5. Present status, challenges and management of the Japanese coastal zone environment/Manish Kumar and Rita Chauhan. 6. Integrating hydrologic and hydrodynamic models for decision support systems and management of coastal zones and estuaries/Prabin Paul and Vladimir Cvetkovic. 7. Creation of system "Delta-Sea" as a basis of ecosystem approach to the management of large Aral Sea\'s Coastal Zone/Yusup Khai Rysbekov. II. Coastal zone water resources (Quantity and quality): challenges for sustainability: 8. Critical evaluation of the recent development and trends in submarine groundwater discharge research in Asia/Manish Kumar, Al. Ramanathan, B.R. Neupane, Dinh Van Tu and Seok-hwi Kim. 9. Influence of climate factors on the groundwater resources of coastal Tamilnadu/S. Chidambaram, K. Trumalesh, Al. Ramanathan. G. Johnsonbabu, P. Paramaguru, U. Karmegam, R. Manivannan, K. Srinivasamoorthy and S. Manikandan. 10. Natural arsenic in coastal groundwaters in the Bengal Delta region in West Bengal, India/Prosun Bhattacharya, Gunnar Jacks, Bibhas Nath, Debashis Chatterjee, Ashis Biswas, Dipti Halder, Santanu Majumder, Subhamoy Bhowmick and Al. Ramanathan. 11. Chemical composition and origin of the coastal zone thermal springs in far East Russia/O.V. Chudaev, V.A. Chudaeva and I.V. Bragin. III. Biodiversity of coastal zones and its sustainability: 12. Organic matter and mangrove productivity/M. Bala Krishna Prasad, Thorsten Dittmar and Al. Ramanathan. 13. Influence of terrestrial inputs on mangrove and coral reef: primary productivity of the Andaman Islands/R. Ramesh, B. Senthilkumar, Jennifer Immaculate Divia and R. Purvaja. 14. Dissolved metal distribution in Indian mangrove ecosystem: case studies from East Coast of India/Gurmeet Singh, Rajesh Kumar Ranjan, Rita Chauhan and Al. Ramanathan. IV. Threats to coastal aquatic ecosystems: developmental and sustainability issues: 15. Shrimp culture: trend, consequences and sustainability in the south-western coastal region of Bangladesh/Dilip Kumar Datta, Kushal Roy and Nazia Hassan. 16. Role of sand dunes and mangroves in the mitigation of coastal hazards with reference to 2004 Tsunami/K. Rajani Priya, K. Santhi Kiran and Ugyen Pema. 17. Assessment of potential health risk through arsenic flow in food chain--a study in gangetic delta of West Bengal/A.C. Samal, S. Kar, Piyal Bhattacharya and S.C. Santra. Author index. Subject index.

"Coastal Zone Management and its sustainability strategy should safeguard ecological security of the coastal areas to avoid pollution as well as exploitation of living and non-living aquatic resources, protecting the agrarian community and avian population and other floral and faunal breeding grounds. The coastal zone is facing increasing pressures from land use change, developmental activities, shoreline erosion, biodiversity losses and natural calamities. This book tries to cover almost all the fields of research concerning the management of the coastal environment and presents it as an integrated approach. Further, this volume addresses the issues which need immediate attention for facilitating the integrated analysis for the sustainability of coastal zones with consolidated source of information from scientists working in various aspects of coastal zone. All the articles are peer reviewed and evaluated and are an inter and multidisciplinary source of information, making an effort to link the various views on coastal zones where millions of people\'s livelihood are likely to be at risk if they are not managed with efficient scientific strategies. The contributors have tried to focus their respective views on the current problems that need urgent attention. Consequently, we see this book as a comprehensive information base, which includes work of experts in their specific fields of research."