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Coastal regions around the world have become increasingly crowded, intensively developed, and severely exploited. Hundreds of millions of people living in these low-lying areas are subject to short-term coastal hazards such as cyclones, hurricanes, and destruction due to El Niño, and are also exposed to the long-term threat of global sea-level rise. These massive concentrations of people expose often-fragile coastal environments to the runoff and pollution from municipal, industrial, and agricultural sources as well as the impacts of resource exploitation and a wide range of other human impacts. Can environmental impacts be reduced or mitigated and can coastal regions adapt to natural hazards? Coasts in Crisis is a comprehensive assessment of the impacts that the human population is having on the coastal zone globally and the diverse ways in which coastal hazards impact human settlement and development. Gary Griggs provides a concise overview of the individual hazards, risks, and issues threatening the coastal zone.

Coasts. --- Coastal zone management. --- Natural disasters. --- Climatic changes. --- Hazardous geographic environments. --- Disasters --- Human ecology --- Environments, Hazardous geographic --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Global environmental change --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Changes, Climatic --- Changes in climate --- Climate change --- Climate change science --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic changes --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Natural calamities --- Ecosystem management --- Natural resources --- Regional planning --- Coastal engineering --- Coast ecosystem management --- Coastal ecosystem management --- Coastal management --- Coastal resource management --- Coastal resources management --- Coastal zone ecosystem management --- Coasts --- CRM (Coastal resource management) --- Zone management, Coastal --- Landforms --- Seashore --- Coastal landforms --- Coastal zones --- Coastlines --- Environmental aspects --- Management --- climate change. --- costal zone. --- diverse preservation. --- ecologist. --- el nino. --- environmental impact. --- fragile ecosystem. --- global warming. --- long term threat. --- melting ice caps. --- ocean floor. --- sea levels. --- sea rising. --- tsunami. --- water crisis.