Coastal Conservation Takes Root

Estuarine and coastal waters are acknowledged centres for anthropogenic impacts. Superimposed on the complex natural interactions between land, rivers and sea are the myriad consequences of human activity – a spectrum ranging from locally polluting effluents to some of the severest consequences of global climate change. For practitioners, academics and students in the field of coastal science and policy, this book examines and exemplifies current and future challenges: from upper estuaries to open coasts and adjacent seas; from tropical to temperate latitudes; from Europe to Australia. This authoritative volume marks the 50th anniversary of the Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Association, and contains a prologue by founding member Professor Richard Barnes and a short history of the Association. Individual chapters then address coastal erosion and deposition; open shores to estuaries and deltas; marine plastics; coastal squeeze and habitat loss; tidal freshwaters – saline incursion and estuarine squeeze; restoration management using remote data collection; carbon storage; species distribution and non-natives; shorebirds; Modelling environmental change; physical processes such as sediments and modelling; sea level rise and estuarine tidal dynamics; estuaries as fish nurseries; policy versus reality in coastal conservation; developments in Estuarine, coastal and marine management.

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Contribution of Ecological Surveys to Coastal Conservation: A Case in Soft Shore Study

The Korean Journal of Ecology ◽

10.5141/jefb.2004.27.3.127 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 27 (3) ◽

pp. 127-131

Author(s):

K. K Tai ◽

S.G Cheung ◽

P.K.S. Shin

Keyword(s):

Coastal Conservation

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Hydrogeochemistry of groundwater in coastal wetlands: implications for coastal conservation in Scotland

The Science of The Total Environment ◽

10.1016/s0048-9697(00)00663-x ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 265 (1-3) ◽

pp. 269-280 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

R. Malcolm ◽

C. Soulsby

Keyword(s):

Coastal Wetlands ◽

Coastal Conservation

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Coastal Conservation, Politics, and a New Commission

Coastal Sage ◽

10.1525/california/9780520283084.003.0004 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Thomas J. Osborne

Keyword(s):

Coastal Zone ◽

Presidential Election ◽

Executive Director ◽

Coastal Zone Management ◽

State Laws ◽

Coastal Conservation ◽

Zone Management ◽

Hard Times ◽

Conservation Politics ◽

Presidential Election Of 1972

Set against the backdrop of the presidential election of 1972 and Republican Richard M. Nixon’s calculated support for the federal Coastal Zone Management Act, the failed effort in California to obtain passage of a statewide law regulating the shore is detailed, followed by enactment of Proposition 20 and the California Coastal Act. Exhilaration from passage of these two foundational state laws was short-lived as the Golden State’s next governor, Republican George Deukmejian, slashed the new Coastal Commission’s budget in the early 1980s and afterward did all he could to dismantle the agency, headed by Michael L. Fischer. By then Douglas, en route to becoming the commission’s next executive director, guided it through the hard times.

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Harnessing market forces for fi nancial inclusivity in marine and coastal conservation: lessons from the market systems development approach

Marine Transboundary Conservation and Protected Areas ◽

10.4324/9781315724270-11 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 63-82

Keyword(s):

Systems Development ◽

Market Forces ◽

Coastal Conservation ◽

Development Approach

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A Cooperative Approach to Resource Management: Texas Game Fish Win

Marine Technology Society Journal ◽

10.4031/mtsj.44.5.5 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 44 (5) ◽

pp. 5-9 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Christina Simoniello ◽

Philippe Tissot ◽

David McKee ◽

John Adams ◽

Robyn Ball ◽

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Keyword(s):

Core Body Temperature ◽

Sustainable Use ◽

Cold Weather ◽

Laguna Madre ◽

Coastal Conservation ◽

Corpus Christi ◽

Cooperative Approach ◽

Use Of Resources ◽

Game Fish ◽

Ocean Observing

AbstractJust as humans succumb to hypothermia, fishes can die if their core body temperature falls below their lower lethal limit. Record-setting cold weather in the southern United States between January 8 and 12, 2010, put numerous recreational game fish species at risk, particularly those living in the shallow, rapidly cooled waters of the Laguna Madre, Texas. Cognizant of the danger of barge traffic in the Land Cut, a section of the Intracoastal Waterway in the Laguna Madre, poses to cold-stressed fishes, Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association (GICA) members voluntarily sacrificed $7,000 per tow to protect the resource. Described here is the collaboration among academics at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Texas A&M University, industry leaders from the Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association, and conservationists from the Coastal Conservation Association Texas, which led to the pooling of financial and human resources to mitigate game fish mortalities during a recent extreme cold weather event, or norther, as Texans refer to it. A new water temperature forecasting tool, in development and tested in this partnership, is discussed in terms of ecosystem-based management, of which a key component is engaging multiple stakeholders in a collaborative process to define problems and find solutions. The partnership exemplifies the mission of the developing U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System and Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System Regional Association to use data and tools to provide information, to deliver that information to decision makers in a timely manner, and to make and implement decisions that promote sustainable use of resources.

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