Asia-Pacific Coasts and Their Management

Editor is member of:

- American Society of Civil Engineers

- Coastal Education and Research Foundation

- Japanese Society of Civil Engineers

- Japanese Association for Coastal Studies

- Japanese Geomorphologic Union

Editor is active (board) member of:

- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

- International EMECS Center

- Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research

- Mitigation and Adaptation Strategy for Global Change

- Global Environmental Change

- Journal of Coastal Change

- Journal of Global Environmental Engineering

The Asia and Pacific region is home to the world s largest concentration of coral reefs and mangroves. It accommodates two-thirds of the world s human population and its economic activities have the highest growth rate in the world. This book gives an overview of the state-of-the-art understanding on the drivers, state, and responses to the coastal environmental changes in the Asia and Pacific region. It provides important perspectives on the subject for researchers.

This important book gives an overview of the state-of-the-art understanding on the drivers, state, and responses to the coastal environmental changes in the Asia and Pacific region. It uses the latest data to provide an objective perspective on the problem.

This important book gives an overview of the state-of-the-art understanding on the drivers, state, and responses to the coastal environmental changes in the Asia and Pacific region. The region is home to the world's largest concentration of coral reefs and mangroves. It accommodates fully two-thirds of the world's human population and its economic activities have the highest growth rate in the world. This book provides important perspectives on what is and will be going on in the region's coastal zones. The Asia-Pacific also forms part of the Pacific's so-called 'Rim of Fire' and is, therefore, vulnerable to earthquakes and tsunamis. Threats of global environmental change such as climate change and sea-level rise will superpose on such problems. It is thus vital that appropriate policies and measures are needed for coastal management in the region, in the context of both local and global trends. This book is a highly important addition to the debate.

1.Introduction (Chair: Mimura and Yamamura)
2.Drivers for changes of coastal zone (Chair: Yanagi and Cho)
2.1.1 Monsoon and coastal zone
2.1.2 Regional characteristics
2.2 Natural environment change
2.2.1 Climatic change
2.2.2 Sea level rise
2.3 Human activities
2.3.1 Population and economic growth
2.3.2 Development of river basins
2.3.3 Development of coastal zone
2.3.4 Pollutants
3.Environmental problems in coastal zone (Chair: Sekiguchi and Sanit)
3.1 Changes in coastal features and beach erosion
3.2 Water and sediment pollution
3.3 Ecological changes (mangroves, coral reefs, sea grass etc)
3.4 Fishery Industry
3.5 Tourism
3.6 Other matters with oil spill
4.Policy for the conservation and sustainable development of coastal zone (Chair: Hirai, Yamao and Shikida)
4.1 Policy Movements of coastal (zone) management highly developing countries/developing countries/small island countries
4.2 Coastal (zone) management
4.3 Best practices in each country
5.Regional conditions (Chair: Alino and Saito)
5.1 East Asia
5.2 Southeast Asia
5.3 South Asia
5.4 Islands in the Pacific islands
6.Conclusion (Chair: Mimura)
- Recommendations toward the sustainable developments