The Environment In Asia Pacific Harbours

Download or read book The Environment in Asia Pacific Harbours written by Eric Wolanski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-07-30 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urbanization has reached unprecedented levels in the estuarine and coastal zone, particularly in the Asia Pacific region where mega-cities and mega-harbours are still growing. This book demonstrates the different solutions and pitfalls, successes and failures in a large number of ports and harbours in the Asia Pacific Region, and shows how science can provide ecologically sustainable solutions that apply wherever the growth of mega-harbours occurs.