Shoreline information is fundamental for understanding coastal dynamics and for implementing environmental policy. The analysis of shoreline variability usually uses a group of shoreline indicators visibly discernible in coastal imagery, such as the seaward vegetation line, wet beach/dry beach line, and instantaneous water line. These indicators partition a beach into four zones: vegetated land...

Local jurisdictions’ coastal zone land use plans play an important role in protecting critical coastal resources and ensuring coastal communities’ sustainable development. This study extends the previous national and regional measurement systems to local coastal zone land use planning. This study evaluates 46 California local jurisdictions’ coastal zone land use plans and analyzes the factors i...

since heavy metals are considered as one of the major pollutants threatening, the main goal of this study was to bring out the concentrations of pb, zn and mn in the surface sediments off bushehr in the persian gulf. for this purpose, after collection of samples, the concentrations of the three metals in surface sediments were measured through the atomic absorption. the results were compared wi...

the bahía blanca estuary, located at the atlantic coast of argentina, includes a governmental nature reserve to protect biodiversity, lands and water; however, as the process of industrialization and urbanization is stepping rapidly at the neighbouring area, the potential increase in contaminant loads is a serious concern. after several contaminants surveys at the estuary, no single study has b...

1 Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia E-mail: [email protected] 2 Department of Geography and Environment, Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies, San Francisco State University, Tiburon, CA 94920, USA 3 Southern Marine and Coastal Resources Research Center, Department of Marine and Coastal Resources, Songkhla 90100, Tha...

Human society and coastal ecosystems are very closely interlinked and interdependent. A vast majority of the population live in coastal areas, and depend on marine and coastal resources for food, employment and income. Focused assessments made by United Nations University (UNU) indicate that this human dependence on the life-sustaining coastal resources is under threat from a range of destabili...