Understanding the Long-Term Evolution of the Coupled Natural-Human Coastal System

Understanding the Long-Term Evolution of the Coupled Natural-Human Coastal System

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
National Academies Press
EAN: 9780309475846
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The U.S. Gulf Coast provides a valuable setting to study deeply connected natural and human interactions and feedbacks that have led to a complex, interconnected coastal system. The physical landscape in the region has changed significantly due to broad-scale, long-term processes such as coastal subsidence and river sediment deposition as well as short-term episodic events such as hurricanes. Modifications from human activities, including building levees and canals and constructing buildings and roads, have left their own imprint on the natural landscape. This coupled natural-human coastal system and the individual aspects within it (physical, ecological, and human) are under increased pressure from accelerating environmental stressors such as sea level rise, intensifying hurricanes, and continued population increase with its accompanying coastal development. Promoting the resilience and maintaining the habitability of the Gulf Coast into the future will need improved understanding of the coupled natural-human coastal system, as well as effective sharing of this understanding in support of decision-making and policies.

Understanding the Long-term Evolution of the Coupled Natural-Human Coastal System presents a research agenda meant to enable a better understanding of the multiple and interconnected factors that influence long-term processes along the Gulf Coast. This report identifies scientific and technical gaps in understanding the interactions and feedbacks between human and natural processes, defines essential components of a research and development program in response to the identified gaps, and develops priorities for critical areas of research.

Table of Contents
  • Front Matter
  • Summary
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Background of the Gulf Coast System
  • 3 Research Gaps
  • 4 Barriers to Effective Communication Between Scientists and Stakeholders
  • 5 Defining a Research Agenda: Priorities to Increase Understanding of Long-Term Coastal Zone Dynamics
  • References
  • Appendix A Committee and Staff Biographical Sketches
  • Appendix B People Who Provided Input to the Committee
EAN 9780309475846
ISBN 0309475848
Typ produktu Mäkká väzba
Vydavateľ National Academies Press
Dátum vydania 17. novembra 2018
Stránky 156
Jazyk English
Rozmery 254 x 178
Krajina United States
Autori Board on Earth Sciences and Resources; Board on Environmental Change and Society; Committee on Long-Term Coastal Zone Dynamics: Interactions and Feedbacks Between Natural and Human Processes Along the U.S. Gulf Coast; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Division on Earth and Life Studies; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Ocean Studies Board