Sustainable Development in the Southeastern Coastal Zone

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Univ of South Carolina Press, 1996 - Business & Economics - 519 pages
"Rapid population growth in the southeastern coastal zone has had an important influence on both resource management policy at the federal, state, regional, and local levels and the findings of environmental impact studies." These twenty-six papers represent a variety of disciplines and such topics as "policy in its broadest sense, environmental resources, and population trends."--Jacket.
 

Contents

Preface
11
Land Settlement Public Policy and the Environmental Future of the Southeast Coast 7
xvi
State Perspective in Coastal Zone Management
25
Population Trends in the Coastal Area Concentrating on South Carolina
55
Conceptual Models Relevant to Sustaining Coastal Zone Resources
75
Geographic Information Systems for Sustainable Development in the
89
Development and the Environment
111
Ecology of Southeastern Salt Marshes
117
Effects on Altering
265
Case Studies
285
Longterm Trends in Nutrient Generation by Point and Nonpoint Sources
319
Geographic Information Processing Assessment of the Impacts of Urbanization
355
The Effects of Coastal Development on Watershed Hydrography and
389
Effects of Watershed Alteration
413
Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbon and Trace Metal Burdens in Sediment and
445
Urbanization Effects on the Fauna of a Southeastern U S A Barbuilt Estuary
477

Anthropogenic Impacts on Salt MarshesA Review
135
The Use of Biological Measures in Assessments of Toxicants in the Coastal Zone
187
The Effects of Urbanization on Human and Ecosystem Health
221
New Microbiological Approaches for Assessing and Indexing
241
Summary
503
Index
517
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