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Coastal ecology --- Marine biology --- Oceanography --- Islands
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This volume discusses the role of humans in transforming the coastal landscape. The book details the many ways beaches and dunes are eliminated, altered and replaced and the differences between natural landforms and the human artefacts that replace them. Emphasis is placed on the importance of retaining naturally functioning beaches and dunes in ways that achieve natural values while accommodating development and use. The issues dealt with in this book will be of interest to practising coastal engineers and research scientists, as well as to planners and managers of coastal resources at all levels of government. It will be of particular value to investigators planning for the future of coastal development under accelerated sea level rise. The book will also be useful as a reference text for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in geography, geology, ecology and other disciplines dealing with the interaction between science, technology and society.
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Coastal ecology --- Marine biology --- Oceanography --- Islands
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Coastal ecology --- National Wetlands Research Center (U.S.)
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Coastal ecology --- National Wetlands Research Center (U.S.)
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General ecology and biosociology --- Coastal ecology. --- Ecology. --- Beaches --- Coastal waters --- Estuaries --- Shelf (not cas)
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Coastal zone management --- Coastal ecology --- Marine resources development --- Marine resources conservation --- United States.
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As appreciation of the interdisciplinary and multidimensional character of environmental issues has increased, there have been attempts to address regional needs more directly. One of these, the Regional Marine Research Program (RMRP), was established by Congress in 1990 to provide a mechanism to fund coastal marine research based on regionally-defined priorities. The RMRP legislation established a system of nine regional marine research boards around the United States. Each board was responsible for planning marine research to address issues of water quality and ecosystem health on a regional scale. Although all nine regions received funding for planning activities and development of a research plan, only the Gulf of Maine RMRP received funding for program implementation. The completion of the Gulf of Maine program, in 1997, presents an opportunity to evaluate whether the process for planning and managing the Gulf of Maine research was adequate, whether the research fulfilled the goals of the program, and whether this experience should serve as a model for similar regional programs elsewhere.Bridging Boundaries through Regional Marine Research is a study of the RMRP, with a specific review of the Gulf of Maine program as well as an assessment of other modesl for regional marine research. This report assesses the need for regional marine research, reviews processes by which regional marine research needs can be defined, and discusses existing programs for regional marine research in the United States. It also identifies short- and long-term approaches that might be taken by NOAA.
Coastal ecology -- Research -- United States. --- Electronic books. -- local. --- Marine ecology -- Research -- United States. --- Coastal ecology --- Marine ecology --- Research --- Biological oceanography --- Marine ecosystems --- Ocean --- Coast ecology --- Coastal zone ecology --- Coasts --- Ecology --- Aquatic ecology --- Coastal biology --- Sublittoral ecology --- Marine Sciences --- Science
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Coastal ecology --- Marine resources development --- Coastal zone management --- Marine ecosystem management --- Marine resources conservation --- Government policy --- Social aspects --- Economic aspects
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