| one publication added to basket [39254] | Impacts of sea-level rise on European coastal lowlands
Tooley, M.J.; Jelgersma, S. (Ed.) (1992). Impacts of sea-level rise on European coastal lowlands. The Institute of British Geographers Special Publications Series, 27. Blackwell: Oxford. ISBN 0-631-18183-0. XV, 267 pp. Part of: The Institute of British Geographers Special Publications Series, more |
| Keywords | Change > Climatic change
Coastal
Coastal zone
Effect
Materials > Gases > Air
Oceanography > Aquatic environment > Marine areas
Pollution
Temporal variations > Long-term changes > Sea level changes
ANE, Europe [Marine Regions]; MED, Europe [Marine Regions]
Marine/Coastal |
| Authors | | Top | - Tooley, M.J., editor
- Jelgersma, S., editor
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| Content | - Jelgersma, S.; Tooley, M.J. (1992). Impacts of a future sea-level rise on European coastal lowlands, in: Tooley, M.J. et al. (Ed.) Impacts of sea-level rise on European coastal lowlands. The Institute of British Geographers Special Publications Series, 27: pp. 1-35, more
- van Malde, J. (1992). Relative rise of mean sea-levels in the Netherlands in recent times, in: Tooley, M.J. et al. (Ed.) Impacts of sea-level rise on European coastal lowlands. The Institute of British Geographers Special Publications Series, 27: pp. 36-55, more
- Baeteman, C.; de Lannoy, W.; Paepe, R.; Van Cauwenberghe, C. (1992). Vulnerability of the Belgian coastal lowlands to future sea-level rise, in: Tooley, M.J. et al. Impacts of sea-level rise on European coastal lowlands. The Institute of British Geographers Special Publications Series, 27: pp. 56-71, more
- Shennan, I. (1992). Impacts of sea-level rise on the Wash, United Kingdom, in: Tooley, M.J. et al. (Ed.) Impacts of sea-level rise on European coastal lowlands. The Institute of British Geographers Special Publications Series, 27: pp. 72-93, more
- Jelgersma, S. (1992). Vulnerability of the coastal lowlands of the Netherlands to a future sea-level rise, in: Tooley, M.J. et al. (Ed.) Impacts of sea-level rise on European coastal lowlands. The Institute of British Geographers Special Publications Series, 27: pp. 94-123, more
- Marino, M.G. (1992). Carbon dioxide increase, sea-level rise and impacts on the western Mediterranean: the Ebro Delta case, in: Tooley, M.J. et al. (Ed.) Impacts of sea-level rise on European coastal lowlands. The Institute of British Geographers Special Publications Series, 27: pp. 124-135, more
- L'Homer, A. (1992). Sea-level changes and impacts on the Rhône Delta coastal lowlands, in: Tooley, M.J. et al. (Ed.) Impacts of sea-level rise on European coastal lowlands. The Institute of British Geographers Special Publications Series, 27: pp. 136-152, more
- Corre, J.-J. (1992). The coastline of the Gulf of Lions: impact of a warming of the atmosphere in the next few decades, in: Tooley, M.J. et al. (Ed.) Impacts of sea-level rise on European coastal lowlands. The Institute of British Geographers Special Publications Series, 27: pp. 153-169, more
- Sestini, G. (1992). The impact of climatic changes and sea-level rise on two deltaic lowlands of the eastern Mediterranean, in: Tooley, M.J. et al. (Ed.) Impacts of sea-level rise on European coastal lowlands. The Institute of British Geographers Special Publications Series, 27: pp. 170-203, more
- Zazo, C.; Dabrio, C.J.; Goy, J.L. (1992). The evolution of the coastal lowlands of Huelva and Cadiz (south-west Spain) during the Holocene, in: Tooley, M.J. et al. (Ed.) Impacts of sea-level rise on European coastal lowlands. The Institute of British Geographers Special Publications Series, 27: pp. 204-217, more
- Tooley, M.J.; Jelgersma, S. (1992). The future of the European coastal lowlands, in: Tooley, M.J. et al. (Ed.) Impacts of sea-level rise on European coastal lowlands. The Institute of British Geographers Special Publications Series, 27: pp. 218-250, more
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| Abstract | The impacts of sea-level rise on the coastal lowlands of the world is one of the most important topics within contemporary geographical research. With over half of the world's population living either on or near coastal lowlands, according to the latest UN estimates, the effects of sea-level rise will have a profound impact on human populations: reclaimed lowlands will be at risk; coastal erosion will accelerate; storm surges will increase the risk of flood disasters; salt water intrusion will affect groundwater quality, river discharges and farmland; coastal ecosystems will be disrupted; port facilities and recreational beaches will be lost; sedimentation in rivers will move up-stream; and toxic wastes in landfill sites, and at present locked into intertidal sediments, will be remobilized. How serious is this threat to the coastal lowlands, one of the most fragile of environments, at this time of global climatic change? What precise effects will increases in carbon dioxide and other 'greenhouse gases' have upon the world's most heavily populated areas? In this landmark work a group of distinguished researchers examine the impacts of a future sea-level rise upon the European coastline, with examples from the coastal lowlands around the North Sea, the Channel and the Mediterranean. Their findings and predictions are of the utmost significance for the future of Europe's coastal lowlands and their continued development. |
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