Tomorrow's Coasts: Complex and Impermanent

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<div><p>This book is intended as a conceptual roadmap to show how some of the numerous pieces&nbsp;of complex coastal systems intersect and might interact under changing future&nbsp;environmental regimes. It is addressed to a non-technical but environmentally&nbsp;literate audience that includes the lay public, policy makers, planners, engineers and&nbsp;academics interested in the causes and consequences of global changes as they are likely&nbsp;to affect coastal systems. The book also outlines some strategies for anticipating and&nbsp;responding to the challenges that lie ahead.</p> <p>The purpose is not to offer a technical treatise on how to build better&nbsp;numerical models or to provide the cognoscenti with new scientific details or theories.&nbsp;Quite on the contrary the authors aim to provide a holistic, easy-accessible overview of coastal systems and therefore use a writing style that is non-technical, nonmathematical&nbsp;and non-jargonized throughout. Wherever scientific terms are required to&nbsp;avoid ambiguity, a clear and simple definition is presented and those definitions are&nbsp;repeated in the glossary. The authors aim to communicate with all who care about the future of&nbsp;coastal environments.</p> In Part 1, they present some underlying general “big picture” concepts that are applicable to coastal processes and coastal change worldwide. Part 2 reviews some of the more important physical, ecological and societal causes and outcomes of coastal change. A selection of case studies of some prominent and highly&nbsp;vulnerable coastal regions is presented in Part 3. Some strategies for facilitating and&nbsp;supporting collaboration among the global scientific community to enhance future coastal&nbsp;resilience are outlined in Part 4.<p></p></div><div><br></div>