Coastal Environments: Problems and Perspectives

Contents:

1 Coastal environments: problems and perspective: Section 1 Coastal resources 2Mineral resource of coastal tracts of India 3 Coastal and marine fisheries resource of kerala – conservation and sustainable developments 4 Coastal Fishery resources of India with special reference of Karnataka – management implications5 Bioresource of coastal sand dunes – Are they naglected? Section 2 Coastal landforms 6 Evolution of coastal landforms southern Karnataka: a remote sensing approach 7 Long-term morphological changes of shoreline and estuaries along the northern Kerala coast remote sensing and GIS based study 8 Coatal landform changes in around Cochin and their implications in coastal zone management 9 Delineation of submerged paleo-shrorelines and paleo-channels along the southern Karnataka coast using remote sensing 10 Preparation of land Use/land cover map as an input to universal soil loss equation through remote sensing and GIS Section 3 Sediment transport and maintence dredging 11 Alongshore sediment transport 12 Effect of hydro-meteorological conditions on sediment transport – a case study in hugli estuary using radiotracers 13 Application of remote sensing and mike-21 for sediment dynamics off mangalore coast Section 4 Coastal erosion and management 14 Coastal erosion and management 15 Breakwaters – an innovative hard option for coastal erosion mitigation measures 16 Miramar (Goa) Beach management project : An oceanographic evaluation 17 Failure anlysis of seawalls along karnataka coast and recent trends in coastal protection Section 5 Application of RS and GIS and flora in environmental geosciences studies 18 Remote sensing in geological and environmental studies 19 Modelling spatio-temporal distrobuting of surface runoff in undulating terrain using remote sensing and GIS 20 Status of coastal gondawana – a floristic perspective