:managing environmental quality in rapidly developing regions
First Statement of Responsibility
/ /G.S. Kleppel, M. Richard DeVoe, Mac V. Rawson, editors.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: Springer,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, c2006.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xxiv, 305 p.
Other Physical Details
:ill., maps, charts
Dimensions
;24 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Springer series on environmental management,
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction. The effects of changing land use patterns on marine resources: setting a research agenda to facilitate management -- Trends in land use policy and development in the coastal southeast -- Predicting trajectories of urban growth in the coastal southeast -- Urban typology and estuarine biodiversity in rapidly developing coastal watersheds -- The relationship of hydrodynamics to morphology in tidal creek and salt marsh systems of South Carolina and Georgia -- The role of tidal wetlands in estuarine nutrient cycling -- Evaluating the potential importance of groundwater-derived carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus inputs to South Carolina and Georgia coastal ecosystems -- Oxygen, carbon dioxide, and estuarine condition -- Chemical contaminants entering estuaries in the South Atlantic Bight as a result of current and past land use -- Models of coastal stress: review and future challenges -- Alternatives to coliform bacteria as indicators of human impact on coastal ecosystems -- Afterword. Managing coastal urbanization and development in the twenty-first century: the need for a new paradigm.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Coastal zone management--United States.
Coastal zone management--Southern States.
Coastal ecology.
Coastal ecology--Southern States.
Environmental management.
Urbanization--Environmental aspects.
Urbanization--Environmental aspects--Southern States.