/G.S. Kleppel, M. Richard DeVoe, Mac V. Rawson, editors.
Changing land use patterns in the coastal zone :managing environmental quality in rapidly developing regions
New York :
Springer,
c2006.
xxiv, 305 p. :ill., maps, charts ;24 cm.
Springer series on environmental management,
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. The effects of changing land use patterns on marine resources: setting a research agenda to facilitate management -- Trends in land use policy and development in the coastal southeast -- Predicting trajectories of urban growth in the coastal southeast -- Urban typology and estuarine biodiversity in rapidly developing coastal watersheds -- The relationship of hydrodynamics to morphology in tidal creek and salt marsh systems of South Carolina and Georgia -- The role of tidal wetlands in estuarine nutrient cycling -- Evaluating the potential importance of groundwater-derived carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus inputs to South Carolina and Georgia coastal ecosystems -- Oxygen, carbon dioxide, and estuarine condition -- Chemical contaminants entering estuaries in the South Atlantic Bight as a result of current and past land use -- Models of coastal stress: review and future challenges -- Alternatives to coliform bacteria as indicators of human impact on coastal ecosystems -- Afterword. Managing coastal urbanization and development in the twenty-first century: the need for a new paradigm.
Coastal zone management--United States.
Coastal zone management--Southern States.
Coastal ecology.
Coastal ecology--Southern States.
Environmental management.
Urbanization--Environmental aspects.
Urbanization--Environmental aspects--Southern States.