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Sustainability of subtropical coastal zones in southwestern Florida: challenges for urbanized coastal environments threatened by development, pollution, water supply, and storm hazards
Type: Text
Year: 2003, 2003
Member of: FAU College Collections
Contributors: Charlier, R. H., Finkl, Charles W.
Publisher: Coastal Education & Research Foundation, Inc.
Description: The subtropical Atlantic coastal zone of southeastern Florida supports nearly 7 million inhabitants on a coastal plain conurbation that stretches from West Palm Beach to Miami. About a quarter of the present population originally settled on higher topography along the shore-parallel Atlantic Coastal Ridge. From about the middle 1900s, however, urbanization intensified along the shore and spread… more
Full Text: RAD LIBRARIES LIBRARIES Florida Atlantic University FAU Institutional Repository http://purl.fcla.edu/fau/fauir This paper was submitted by the faculty of FAU’s Geosciences Department. Notice: ©2003 Coastal Education & Research Foundation, Inc. [CERF] …