Description
The Asia and Pacific region is home to the world’s largest concentration of coral reefs and mangroves. It accommodates two-thirds of the world’s human population and its economic activities have the highest growth rate in the world. This book gives an overview of the state-of-the-art understanding on the drivers, state, and responses to the coastal environmental changes in the Asia and Pacific region. It provides important perspectives on the subject for researchers. Editor is member of: – American Society of Civil Engineers – Coastal Education and Research Foundation – Japanese Society of Civil Engineers – Japanese Association for Coastal Studies – Japanese Geomorphologic Union Editor is active (board) member of: – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – International EMECS Center – Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research – Mitigation and Adaptation Strategy for Global Change – Global Environmental Change – Journal of Coastal Change – Journal of Global Environmental Engineering 1.Introduction (Chair: Mimura and Yamamura) 2.Drivers for changes of coastal zone (Chair: Yanagi and Cho) 2.1.1 Monsoon and coastal zone 2.1.2 Regional characteristics 2.2 Natural environment change 2.2.1 Climatic change 2.2.2 Sea level rise 2.3 Human activities 2.3.1 Population and economic growth 2.3.2 Development of river basins 2.3.3 Development of coastal zone 2.3.4 Pollutants 3.Environmental problems in coastal zone (Chair: Sekiguchi and Sanit) 3.1 Changes in coastal features and beach erosion 3.2 Water and sediment pollution 3.3 Ecological changes (mangroves, coral reefs, sea grass etc) 3.4 Fishery Industry 3.5 Tourism 3.6 Other matters with oil spill 4.Policy for the conservation and sustainable development of coastal zone (Chair: Hirai, Yamao and Shikida) 4.1 Policy Movements of coastal (zone) management highly developing countries/developing countries/small island countries 4.2 Coastal (zone) management 4.3 Best practices in each country 5.Regional conditions (Chair: Alino and Saito) 5.1 East Asia 5.2 Southeast Asia 5.3 South Asia 5.4 Islands in the Pacific islands 6.Conclusion (Chair: Mimura) – Recommendations toward the sustainable developments
