Kerala's Coastal Area: The case for a coastal zone management plan covering coastal land and water
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The beautiful coast of Kerala is as much a part of the unique dynamics of Kerala's social history as its natural history. The several ports on the coast facilitated commercial and cultural links of a population confined between the idyllic Western Ghats ranges and the Arabian Sea. These links extended to almost all the major ancient civilizations in the world. The fortuitous winds blowing over the oceans, in predictable patterns or what came to be known as the 'monsoon' made these maritime links possible. The seasonal change in winds combined with the existence of the Western Ghats determined the macro and micro climate and ecology or the biogeography of a region nestled between geologically young shoreline and a very old land formation.
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