Greenhouse-induced climate warming increasingly appears to be a reality, and the warming climate will be accompanied by an accelerated sea level rise - as much as 60-100 cm over the next century. What is commonly absent in the discussion of rising sea level, however, is the role played by the subsidence of low-lying coastal areas, which can have a far greater local effect than the eustatic rise of the sea. The combined sea-level rise and land subsidence will almost certainly make the greatest impact on coastal societies in the densely populated regions of southern Asia, but its effects will be felt globally. This volume explores the concepts of sea-level rise and coastal subsidence, both natural and anthropogenically accelerated, in the form of a series of case studies in such diverse locations as Bangkok, Bangladesh, Venice, and the Niger and Mississippi deltas, as well as a discussion of the economic, engineering and policy responses that must be considered if the effects of local sea-level rise are to be mitigated.
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subaerial growth, subaerial land, birdsfoot delta, ground water withdrawal, land loss rates, coastal subsidence, artificial recharging, delta aquifer, warming commitment, global mean temperature change, accelerated subsidence, deep well pumping, natural subsidence, upwelling rate, tide gauge data, piezometric level, land subsidence, subsiding deltas, deltaic sedimentation, sediment discharge, delta coast, local subsidence, tide gauge records, deltaic areas, deltaic plain Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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subaerial growth, subaerial land, birdsfoot delta, ground water withdrawal, land loss rates, coastal subsidence, artificial recharging, delta aquifer, warming commitment, global mean temperature change, accelerated subsidence, deep well pumping, natural subsidence, upwelling rate, tide gauge data, piezometric level, land subsidence, subsiding deltas, deltaic sedimentation, sediment discharge, delta coast, local subsidence, tide gauge records, deltaic areas, deltaic plain Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Niger Delta, Mississippi River, Wadden Sea, Gulf of Mexico, New York, United States, Yangtze Delta, Kluwer Academic Publishers, North Sea, Yangtze River, Chao Phraya River, Yellow River, Cambridge Univ, Amazon River, Scientific Assessment, Coastal Res, Colorado River, Bay of Bengal, Hua Hin, Asian Institute of Technology, Nakhon Luang, Port Said, Louisiana State Univ, Phra Pradaeng, Port Harcourt New!
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- Final report (CCS occasional paper ; no. 6) by Speyside Project on page 130, and page 192
- The Geological Evolution of the River Nile by Rushdi Said on page 61, and page 232
- Artificial Structures and Shorelines (GeoJournal Library) by H. Jesse Walker on page 103, and page 265
- The Global Climate by John T. Houghton on page 8, and Back Matter
- Fluvial Processes in Geomorphology (Dover Earth Science) by Luna B. Leopold on page 83, and page 168
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- Coastal Zone Management Imperative for Maritime Developing Nations (Coastal Systems and Continental Margins (closed)) by B.U. Haq on page 91, and page 92
- Coastal Conservation and Management - An Ecological Perspective (Conservation Biology Volume 13) by J. Pat Doody in Back Matter
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