Vulnerability of Coastal Ecosystems and Adaptation

About this book

The vulnerability of socio-ecosystem combines the probability of exposure to natural or anthropogenic pressure, sensitivity and resilience. Vulnerability of Coastal Ecosystems and Adaptation presents a systemic view of the diversity of pressures and impacts produced by climate change and human actions. Erosion of biodiversity by changing ocean chemistry, the intensification of global change raises the problem of the adaptation of living resources.

Contents

1. Marine Ecosystems under Toxic Pressure
2. The Vulnerability and Resilience of Estuaries to Contamination by Antibiotics and by Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria: what is the Risk for the Future?
3. Microbiological coastal risks and monitoring systems
4. Vulnerability, Impacts on and Adaptation of Coastal Zones to Global Change
5. The Shoreline between Nature and Society, a Changing Heritage
6. From Vulnerability to Adaptation to Climate Change: Food for Thoughts in Social Sciences
7. Anthropological approach to vulnerability and major hazards

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