The Scheldt Estuary

An Example of Sustainable Estuarine Management
Erscheinungsjahr 2029
ISBN: 978-0-12-820235-7
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 410 Seiten, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 260 mm

The Scheldt Estuary: An Example of Sustainable Estuarine Management deals with all different aspects of a single estuary, including the biophysical aspects of the system and its socioeconomic aspects. It provides a description of how the management of the system developed over time and gives a blueprint of the approach to be followed for integrated and holistic management, along with a look to the future for this estuary and others. A detailed case study and decision trees to aid the reader in carrying out the same techniques in their own field work and restoration efforts are also included.

Users will find a comprehensive tome on the Scheldt estuary, its history, its uses and its problems through process-based integrated restoration and management. The concepts and ideas described can be an inspiration for managing other estuaries and coasts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meire, Patrick

Wolanski, Eric

Elliott, Michael

Weitere Mitwirkende

Wolanski, Eric

Elliott, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. A struggle between man and nature: 1000 years of dike builing and flooding's 2. The estuary: a great economic opportunity 3. The estuarine system: suffering from the economic activities 4. A sectorial management 5. Towards an integrated management6. A success?7. Challenges towards the future

Über Autor(innen)

Wolanski, Eric
Professor Eric Wolanski is an estuarine oceanographer at James Cook University and the Australian Institute of Marine Science. His research interests range from the oceanography of coral reefs, mangroves, and muddy estuaries, to the interaction between physical and biological processes determining ecosystem health in tropical waters. He has published 396 publications and reports. Eric is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Institution of Engineers Australia (ret.), and l'Académie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer. He was awarded an Australian Centenary medal, a Doctorate Honoris Causa by the Catholic University of Louvain, a second Doctorate Honoris Causa by the University Hull, and a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Estuarine & Coastal Sciences Association. Eric is a member of the Scientific and Policy Committee of the Japan-based International Center for Environmental Management of Enclosed Coastal Seas.

Elliott, Michael
Professor Michael Elliott is the Director of the Institute of Estuarine & Coastal Studies (IECS) and Professor of Estuarine and Coastal Sciences at the University of Hull, U.K. He is a marine biologist with wide experience in teaching, research, advisory and consultancy work in estuarine and marine aspects of ecological components and communities, and the impacts of human activities, as well as policy, governance, and management of estuaries and coasts. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and of the Society of Biology. Mike has published widely, coauthoring/coediting 15 books and contributing to over 200 scientific publications. Mike has acted as an advisor on many marine and estuarine environmental matters for academia, industry, government, and statutory bodies in Europe and elsewhere. Mike is a past-president of the international Estuarine & Coastal Sciences Association (ECSA) and is also one of the four editors-in-chief of the international journal Estuarine, Coastal & Shelf Science and is on the editorial board of Marine Pollution Bulletin. He is the Sir Walter Murdoch Distinguished Adjunct Professor, Murdoch University, Australia, and also has adjunct professor and research positions at Klaipeda University (Lithuania), the University of Palermo (Italy), and the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Grahamstown. In 2014, he was appointed an independent non-executive member of the UK Marine Science Coordinating Committee and member of the Science Advisory Board of Marine Scotland. In 2014, Mike was awarded the Laureate of the Honorary Winberg Medal of the Russian Hydrobiological Academic Society.