Submerging Coasts: The Effects of a Rising Sea Level on Coastal Environments

Bird, Eric C. F.

ISBN 10: 0471938076 / ISBN 13: 9780471938071

Published by Wiley, 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Submerging Coasts: The Effects of a Rising Sea Level on Coastal Environments
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471938076
• ISBN 13: 9780471938071
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

Submerging Coasts The Effects of a Rising Sea Level on Coastal Environments Eric C. F. Bird Geostudies (UK), Sevenoaks, Kent, England Submerging Coasts deals with the changes that take place on coastal landforms during a rising sea level and the responses to these changes by people living in coastal areas. Evidence from subsiding coasts (where a relative rise of sea level is already occurring), from theoretical models, and from geological evidence of changes during marine transgressions is assembled to indicate the kinds of change that will occur globally as a result of climatic warming and sea level rise due to the enhanced greenhouse effect. Examination of actual and potential human responses to these changes provides a background for coastal planners, developers, conservationists and managers, and for all concerned with the prospect of submerging coasts into the 21 st century.

From the Publisher

Systematically explores physical changes and human responses globally to sea level rise. Assembles evidence from subsiding coasts (where a relative rise occurs), from theoretical models and from geological changes during marine transgressions to indicate the kinds of planetary changes that will occur from the enhanced Greenhouse effect: climatic warming and sea level rise. Provides an extensive bibliography.