Changing Land Use Patterns in the Coastal Zone

Introduction-The Effects of Changing Land Use Patterns on Marine Resources: Setting a Research Agenda to Facilitate Management.- Introduction-The Effects of Changing Land Use Patterns on Marine Resources: Setting a Research Agenda to Facilitate Management.- Trends in Coastal Population Growth-Policies and Predictions.- Trends in Land Use Policy and Development in the Coastal Southeast.- Predicting Trajectories of Urban Growth in the Coastal Southeast.- Urban Typology and Estuarine Biodiversity in Rapidly Developing Coastal Watersheds.- Coastal Hydrology and Geochemistry.- The Relationship of Hydrodynamics to Morphology in Tidal Creek and Salt Marsh Systems of South Carolina and Georgia.- The Role of Tidal Wetlands in Estuarine Nutrient Cycling.- Evaluating the Potential Importance of Groundwater-Derived Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus Inputs to South Carolina and Georgia Coastal Ecosystems.- Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, and Estuarine Condition.- Contaminants and Their Effects.- Chemical Contaminants Entering Estuaries in the South Atlantic Bight as a Result of Current and Past Land Use.- Models of Coastal Stress: Review and Future Challenges.- Alternatives to Coliform Bacteria as Indicators of Human Impact on Coastal Ecosystems.- Afterword-Managing Coastal Urbanization and Development in the Twenty-First Century: The Need for a New Paradigm.- Afterword-Managing Coastal Urbanization and Development in the Twenty-First Century: The Need for a New Paradigm.

Coastal ecosystems attract intense interest from scientists and land managers because they are found in many of our most prized, and most endangered, regions.
This book is written by and for scientists but also for anyone who influences the management and policy in coastal regions. Each chapter presents an issue important to these systems, giving first a nontechnical summary of the issue and review of the current state of the knowledge, followed by data and a more detailed discussion. While many of the case studies are drawn from long term studies in the southeast United States, the examples and lessons are relevant for ecologists, planners, resource managers, policymakers, and others working in all coastal environments. The contributors provide multidisciplinary guidance to the assessment and management of environmental impacts caused by development.