Applied studies of coastal and marine environments / edited by Maged Marghany.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maged Marghany

Contributor:

Marghany, Maged, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marine ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (438 pages)

Place of Publication:

IntechOpen 2016

Rijeka, Croatia : IntechOpen, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book ''Applied Studies of Coastal and Marine Environments'' is a collection of a number of high-quality and comprehensive work on coastal and marine environment. This book has an Introductory Chapter, followed by 15 chapters. Chapters 2 and 3 are devoted to coastal geological sedimentation and its impacts on marine environment. Consequently, Chapter 4 investigates neo-tectonic movement in the Pearl River Delta. Different aspects of the coastal pollution and its impacts are addressed in Chapter 5 through Chapter 13. Furthermore, coastal management is also discussed in Chapter 14, and monitoring the coastal environment using remote sensing and GIS techniques is reported in Chapter 15. Finally, Chapter 16 addresses the human history of maritime exploitation and adaptation process to coastal and marine environments. It is important to investigate the history of maritime exploitation and adaptation to environment coastal zone to learn how to explore the oceans.

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (InTech, viewed October 17, 2022).

ISBN:

9789535141822

9535141821

9789535125495

9535125494