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Estuaries and their surrounding wetland regions are among the most productive ecosystems in the world, with more than half of humanity inhabiting their shores. Anthropogenic factors make estuaries highly susceptible to ecosystem degradation. Coastal waters are closely connected with human activity, and their dynamic processes may greatly affect coastal environments. This book provides a compendium of studies on estuarine dynamics, river plumes, and coastal water dynamics, studies that have investigated the changes in estuarine and coastal zones in response to sea-level rise and other environmental factors, and policy and management strategies to ensure the health and economy of coastal zones. This book aims to display novel frontiers in these fields and may help to inspire in-depth studies in the future.
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Estuaries --- Geomorphology. --- Sediment transport --- Mathematical models.
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This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact
microphytobenthos --- diatoms --- primary productivity --- biodiversity --- estuaries
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Estuaries --- Mathematical models --- Branching bays --- Drowned river mouths --- Firths --- River estuaries --- Coasts --- Rivers
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This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact
Phosphorus --- biogeochemistry --- Monitoring --- Eutrophication --- Estuaries --- Soil --- Rivers --- Lakes --- Oceans
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Estuaries are regarded among the most ecologically threatened ecosystems worldwide largely due to poor land use practices within their catchment areas, freshwater abstraction, coastal development, and resource exploitation. Moreover, these systems act as repositories for various anthropogenic contaminants. The establishment and successful implementation of conservation and management strategies are critically dependent on understanding the links among physicochemical, hydrological, and biological variables within these systems. The book provides a comprehensive overview of selected topics including modeling of water exchange between estuaries and the ocean, sediment geochemistry and mangrove health, climate variability and hydrology, and pesticides in estuaries and ecosystem functioning for various estuaries including permanently open, mangrove, and intermittently open/closed systems in both the northern and the southern hemispheres.
Estuaries. --- Branching bays --- Drowned river mouths --- Firths --- River estuaries --- Coasts --- Rivers --- Physical Sciences --- Engineering and Technology --- Earth and Planetary Sciences
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Fresh water resources are under serious stress throughout the globe. Water supply and water quality degradation are global concerns. Many natural water bodies receive a varied range of waste water from point and/or non point sources. Hence, there is an increasing need for better tools to asses the effects of pollution sources and prevent the contamination of aquatic ecosystems. The book covers a wide spectrum of issues related to waste water monitoring, the evaluation of waste water effect on different natural environments and the management of water resources.
Estuarine ecology. --- Estuaries --- Brackish water ecology --- Ecology --- Engineering --- Physical Sciences --- Engineering and Technology --- Ecohydrology --- Environmental Engineering
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This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact
anthropogenic perturbations --- biogeochemical cycles --- environmental gradients --- Estuaries --- extremophiles --- global change --- greenhouse gases --- marine microbiology --- microbial ecology --- ocean acidification
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The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta has newly emerged 'char' islands, resulting from the deposition of sediment, which are very vulnerable, socially, institutionally and environmentally. This book explains how the governments of Bangladesh and the Netherlands and the International Fund for Agricultural Development cooperated on a land-based rural development project to give settlers security and purpose. It details how they engaged communities and civil societies, and implemented an infrastructure aimed at reducing flooding, improving drainage, and providing adequate drinking water and sanitation. The book describes the project's application to crop and animal agriculture, and the development of value chains and encouragement of female participation. It considers the financial underpinning and infrastructure, as well as how to ensure the impacts of the scheme are enduring. The scheme serves as a model for support projects to vulnerable groups faced with climate change and other environmental challenges. This book is suitable for students, researchers, specialists and practitioners in rural development, water resources, land management and soil science.
Deltas, estuaries, coastal regions --- Development economics & emerging economies --- resettlement --- land development --- Bangladesh --- Commonwealth of Nations --- development projects --- Asia --- livelihoods --- rural development --- Least Developed Countries --- Developing Countries --- South Asia
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Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has become a global paradigm for the governance of surface, coastal and groundwaters. This Special Issue contains twelve articles related to the transfer of IWRM policy principles. The articles explore three dimensions of transfer—causes, processes, outcomes—and offer a theoretically inspiring, methodologically rich and geographically diverse engagement with IWRM policy transfer around the globe. As such, they can also productively inform a future research agenda on the ‘dimensional’ aspects of IWRM governance. Regarding the causes, the contributions apply, criticise, extend or revise existing approaches to policy transfer in a water governance context, asking why countries adopt IWRM principles and what mechanisms are in place to understand the adoption of these principles in regional or national contexts. When it comes to processes, articles in this Special Issue unpack the process of policy transfer and implementation and explore how IWRM principles travel across borders, levels and scales. Finally, this set of papers looks into the outcomes of IWRM policy transfer and asks what impact IWRM principles, once implemented, gave on domestic water governance, water quality and water supply, and how effective IWRM is at addressing critical water issues in specific countries.
overfishing --- ocean governance --- integrated water resources management --- Cambodia --- environmental narratives --- England --- transitions --- nitrates --- coordination --- dam --- Integrated Urban Water Management --- local communities --- sustainable fishing --- governance models --- estuaries --- fisheries management --- integrated scientific support --- environmental governance --- niches --- policy coherence --- ecosystem-based management --- sustainability --- institutions --- conservation authorities --- river basin planning --- Turkey --- integrated water resources management (IWRM) --- water quality --- integrated catchment management --- water resource management --- Ontario --- drivers --- Germany --- Oregon --- participation --- watershed councils --- policy transfer --- Water Framework Directive --- Singapore --- urban water security --- Hong Kong --- lived experiences --- EU policy --- scale --- learning --- IWRM --- polycentricity --- agriculture --- process tracing --- policy implementation --- WFD --- pesticides --- visions --- drinking water --- Integrated Water Resources Management --- public participation --- catchment --- EU water framework directive --- agency --- governmentality --- implementation --- United Kingdom --- top-down and bottom-up --- Europeanisation --- water management regimes --- European Union --- environmental policy --- water governance --- governance
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