Accelerated sea level rise (SLR) in the twenty-first century will result in unprecedented coastal recession, threatening billions of dollars worth of coastal developments and infrastructure. Therefore, we cannot continue to depend on the highly uncertain coastal recession estimates obtained via the simple, deterministic method (Bruun rule) that has been widely used over the last 50 years. Furth...

This paper presents the second-year outcomes of our Digital Government project “Digitalization of Coastal Management and Decision Making Supported by Multi-Dimensional Geospatial Information and Analysis”. One of the primary objectives of the second year is to develop and integrate multiple spaceborne, airborne, and in-situ remotely sensed measurements, spatio-temporal databases, coastal hydrol...

Coastal zones are exposed to a range of coastal hazards including sea-level rise with its related effects. At the same time, they are more densely populated than the hinterland and exhibit higher rates of population growth and urbanisation. As this trend is expected to continue into the future, we investigate how coastal populations will be affected by such impacts at global and regional scales...

This demonstration will be presented at the 2003 National Conference on Digital Government Research to accompany a short paper entitled “Integration of Multi-Source Spatial Information for Coastal Management and Decision Making”. The demonstration presents the two-year outcomes of our Digital Government project “Digitalization of Coastal Management and Decision Making Supported by MultiDimensio...

BACKGROUND Many coastal species occupying the temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest in North America comprise endemic populations genetically and ecologically distinct from interior continental conspecifics. Morphological variation previously identified among wolf populations resulted in recognition of multiple subspecies of wolves in the Pacific Northwest. Recently, separate genetic s...

The influence of land-use mosaic among sub-watersheds on coastal processes apply globally to any coastal regions hugged by wetlands and underlain with limestone deposits. The existence of a subterranean flow connecting a tropical backwater to the Arabian Sea through the submerged porous lime shell is indicated from the coastal nutrient distribution. The present investigation represented a nonmu...

Coastal mapping is essential for a number of applications such as coastal resource management, coastal environmental protection, and coastal development and planning. Coastal mapping has been carried out using a wide range of techniques such as ground surveying and aerial mapping. Recently, satellite images, active sensor elevation models, and multispectral and hyperspectral images have also be...

Despite their value, coastal ecosystems are globally threatened by anthropogenic impacts, yet how these impacts are driven by economic development is not well understood. We compiled a multifaceted dataset to quantify coastal trends and examine the role of economic growth in China's coastal degradation since the 1950s. Although China's coastal population growth did not change following the 1978...