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Coasts.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- One Planet, One Ocean
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environment and Social Issues.
- Coastal engineering.
- Fish and seafood.
- Oceanography.
- Marine life.
- Water pollution.
- Local Subjects:
- Environment and Social Issues.
- Coastal engineering.
- Fish and seafood.
- Oceanography.
- Marine life.
- Water pollution.
- Genre:
- Lecture/presentation
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (4 minutes)
- Other Title:
- Introduction to Coasts
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : SDG Academy, 2016.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Coasts provide resources such as fish and seafood. They are also the location of tourism and connect countries as the location of megacities and ports for global trade. Coastal disasters have remote causes, and coasts are vulnerable to threats from both land and ocean including: agriculture, industry, transport, recreational runoffs and wastes, erosion, oil spills, salt water intrusion, sea level rise, and natural disasters like storm surges. We can safeguard coastal ecosystems by minimizing human intervention and allowing the coastal systems to sustain itself, as well as through coastal engineering. Ecosystem-based management offers local, community-based solutions that integrate human needs at the coast with natural requirements for its solution, while coastal engineering offers technological solutions.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed June 24, 2026).
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