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Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Subsidence : Causes, Consequences, and Strategies / edited by John D. Milliman, Bilal U. Haq.

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Greenhouse-induced climate warming increasingly appears to be a reality, and the warming climate will be accompanied by an accelerated sea level rise - as much as 60-100 cm over the next century. What is commonly absent in the discussion of rising sea level, however, is the role played by the subsid...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Milliman, John D.
Other Authors: Haq, Bilal U.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1996.
Series:Coastal systems and continental margins ; v. 2.
Subjects:
Geography.
Hydraulic engineering.
Meteorology.
Sedimentology.
Climatic changes.
Environmental toxicology.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Sea-level Rise and Coastal Subsidence
  • Towards Meaningful Strategies
  • I: Processes and Problems
  • 1 Global Sea-level Rise: Past and Future
  • 2 Land Subsidence in Coastal Lowlands
  • 3 River-Sediment Inputs to Major Deltas
  • 4 Coastal Erosion and Rising Sea-Level
  • II: Case Studies
  • 5 Land Subsidence in Bangkok during 1978-1988
  • 6 Coastal Erosion in the Gulf of Thailand
  • 7 Nature of Sediment Load in the Ganges-Brahmaputra River Systems in India
  • 8 Subsidence of the Ganges
  • Brahmaputra Delta of Bangladesh and Associated Drainage, Sedimentation and Salinity Problems
  • 9 Tectonic, Eustatic and Isostatic Changes along the Indian Coast
  • 10 Effect of Sea-Level Rise and Human Activity on the Yangtze Delta, China
  • 11 Rising Sea-Level and Subsidence of the Northern Nile Delta: A Case Study
  • 12 Land Subsidence and Sea-Level Rise: The Case of the Po Delta Region, Italy
  • 13 The Niger Delta and Sea-Level Rise
  • 14 Sea-Level Rise and the Stability of Barrier Islands, with special reference to the Wadden Sea
  • 15 Subsidence, Sea-Level Rise, and Wetland Loss in the Lower Mississippi River Delta
  • III: Strategies
  • 16 Economizing Human Responses to Subsidence and Rising Sea Level
  • 17 Man-Made Projects and Relative Sea-Level Rise
  • 18 Impact of Sea Level Rise on Flood Control in Bangkok and Vicinity
  • Coastal Vulnerability: Hazards and Strategies
  • List of Contributors
  • Geographic Index.

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