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Coasts in Crisis

Don Hinrichsen

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Routledge
26 August 2016

Deltas, estuaries, coastal regions; Biodiversity; Management of land & natural resources; Environmental science, engineering & technology

Series: Natural Resource Management Set

Most of the world's population lives on or near the coasts. Every nation not completely landlocked has used the sea as its supposedly self-cleansing garbage dump. Now the effects are being felt. There is not a coast in the world which is not dangerously polluted. Sewage, oil, plastics, industrial effluents, radioactive waste have been added to ungoverned development, all of which are busily destroying otherwise robust inshore eco-systems.

Hinrichsen, basing his work on United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) research and his own extensive travels, has described the situation in the Mediterranean, the Gulf, the Indian Ocean, the South-East Asian Seas and the Eastern Pacific. He covers both the disasters and the growing successes in dealing with them, and he points the way to the sort of international deal needed to rescue a vast resource in danger of complete destruction. His book is both a call to action and a sign of hope. Originally published in 1990

By: Don Hinrichsen
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138928893
ISBN 10: 1138928895
Series: Natural Resource Management Set
Pages: 196
Publication Date: 26 August 2016
Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements Preface Introduction 1. On Distant Shores 2. The Regional Seas of the Developing World 3. The Mediterranean Sea 4. The Persian Gulf 5. The Wider Caribbean 6. The South Pacific 7. The South-east Pacific 8. East Asia 9. South Asia 10. Eastern Africa 11. West and Central Africa 12. The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden 13. What Future for Regional Seas? Bibliography Index

Hinrichsen, Don