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 Seas Coastal ZoneYusup 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 BR 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 OV Chudaev VA Chudaeva and IV 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 AC Samal S Kar Piyal Bhattacharya and SC 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 peoples livelihood are likely to be at risk if they are not managed with efficient scientific strategies The contri.