Climate change : impact on coastal navigation.

Includes bibliographical references and index

The world heat budget: expected changes -- Recorded sea level variability in the holocene and expected future changes -- Present and future sea level: the effect of predicted global changes -- River flux to the sea: impact on human intervention on river systems and adjacent coastal areas -- Response of estuaries to climate change -- Effects of sea level rise on coastal sedimentation and erosion -- Sea level rise: a worldwide assessment of risk and protection costs -- Impact of climate change on coastal cities -- Impact of climate change on the ecology of temperate coastal wetlands, beaches,and dunes -- The impact of climactic change on coral reefs, mangroves, and tropical seagrass ecosystems -- Impact of climactic change on coastal architecture