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Environmental impacts of coastal-plain activities on sandy beach systems: Hazards, perception and mitigation
Type: Text
Year: 2003, 2003
Member of: FAU College Collections
Contributors: Finkl, Charles W., Krupa, Steve L.
Publisher: Coastal Education and Research Foundation, Inc.
Description: Managed sandy beach environments along developed shores often appear safe and healthy because obvious hazards such as beach erosion and flooding are considered within the purview of various mitigation programs. A range of insidious and generally unseen hazards, mostly related to pollution, often pose greater threats to the wellbeing of beach systems than do the highly visible, well publicized… more
Full Text: FAU Institutional Repository http://purl.fcla.edu/fau/fauir This paper was submitted by the faculty of FAU’s Department of Geosciences. Notice: ©2003 Coastal Education and Research Foundation, Inc. (CERF) http://www.cerfjcr.org/ This manuscript may be …
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] …