Coastal Management Global Challenges and Innovations [Paperback]

Coastal Management: Global Challenges and Innovations focuses on the resulting problems faced by coastal areas in developing countries with a goal of helping create updated management and tactical approaches for researchers, field practitioners, planners and policymakers. This book gathers, compiles and interprets recent developments, starting from paleo-coastal climatic conditions, to current climatic conditions that influence coastal resources. Chapters included cover almost all aspects of coastal area management, including sustainability, coastal communities, hazards, ocean currents and environmental monitoring.

• Contains contributions from a global pool of authors with a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, making this an authoritative and compelling reference
• Presents the appropriate tools used in monitoring and controlling coastal management, including innovative approaches towards community participation and the implementation of bottom-up tactics
• Includes case studies from across the world, allowing for a thorough comparison of situations in both developing and developed countries

1. Global Coasts in the Face of Disasters 2. Special Coastal Management Area Concept Experience in Sri Lanka 3. Coastal Development: Construction of a Public Policy for the Shores and Seas of Mexico 4. Governance of the Nautical Sector on the Coasts of Bahias de Hautulco in Oaxaca, Mexico 5. Sustainable Coastal Management for Socio-Ecological Systems -- A Typology Approach in Indonesia 6. Evaluation and Management Strategies of Tourist Beaches in the Pacific Coast: A Case Study from Acapulco and Huantulco, Mexico. 7. Evaluation of Decadal Shoreline Changes in the Coastal Region of Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia 8. A View to South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal Coast: Stressors and Coastal Management 9. Integral Management of the Coastal Zone to l.