Full title: Changing land use patterns in the coastal zone : managing environmental quality in rapidly developing regions / G.S. Kleppel, M. Richard DeVoe, Mac V. Rawson, editors.

Author/creator: Kleppel, G. S. (Gary S.), DeVoe, M. Richard, Rawson, Mac V.

Call Numbers: N333.91714/ 2

Record Identifier: 74VKv4zWrvNb

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xxiv, 305 p. : ill., maps, charts ; 24 cm., 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.

Publishers: New York : Springer, c2006.

Notes: Springer series on environmental management, 0172-6161. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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DDC: 333.9170975 333.917140975

MMS ID: 991021663599702626