India is surrounded on three sides by ocean and has one of the largest coastlines of 7,500 km. The coastal areas have a vast economic potential and attract tourists from all over the world to their beach resorts blessed with unparalleled scenic beauty. The coastal location where land and sea meet happens to be environmentally fragile. The erosion of coastline due to climatic changes and destruction of mangroves have exposed the coastline to the ravages of weather. This has been aggravated by the pollution created by chemical industries, upcoming ports and impact of tourism activities ravaging the coastline. Depletion of coastal resources is a matter of concern and poses an immense challenge to policy makers. The purpose of this book is to create an awareness of management issues in coastal areas for the conservation of coastal resources. The book has been divided into three sections with a total of 14 carefully selected articles highlighting the economic potential of coastal areas. Various issues follow them, like rising sea level which is shifting the shorelines, the coastal processes along the Indian coastline, the ways of preventing pollution of environment all of which can be achieved and the coastal environment can be protected through legal provisions. The final wrap-up is in the form of conservation and management of coastal resources, highlighting the importance of conservation of mangroves, and application of GIS technology for Coastal Zone Management from a hydrographer’s perspective.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Prabha Shastri Ranade
Prabha Shastri Ranade holds a Master's degree in Geography and Ph.D. in Social Sciences from Nagpur University. She has over 25 years of teaching and research. experience. She is currently working as Consulting Editor at Icfai Business School Research Centre, Ahmedabad. She started her career as Research Officer at National Atlas and Thematic Mapping Organization, (Government of India) Kolkata, and has moved to teaching of Geography at Nagpur University. Later, she was awarded UGC's Research Associateship for post doctoral research projects, under which she worked at Devi Ahilya Vishwa Vidyalaya, Indore and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi for about 15 years. She has contributed numerous articles in academic journals, conference proceedings, edited books, newspapers and the Encyclopedia of World Geography (New York). She has edited a few books published by the Icfai University Press and also published four books, 'Maharashtra', under States of Our Union Series, by the Publications Division of Government. of India; Population Dynamics in India by Ashish Publishing House, New Delhi; Industries and Environment: A Study of Impact Assessment by APH Publishing Corporation, New Delhi; and a text book on "Geography" for the Maharashtra State Text Book Bureau, Pune. She has presented research papers at various national and international conferences and seminars, held within the country and abroad. She was the recipient of "Young Scientist" honour by the Indian Science Congress for her research contribution. Her areas of expertise and interests include geography, population, resources and environment.
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