“Is increasing trade environmentally sustainable?” the editor of this book, Eric Wolanski, has been wondering ever since his 1969 road trip from Princeton to New York City. Global urbanization has increasingly resulted in environmental degradation in estuarine and coastal zones. This book aims at detailing how science can provide alternative solutions so that economic and social development can be ecologically sustainable. It seemed unique in understanding and evaluating how the impacted estuarine and coastal waters work by bridging the gap between physical and biological processes, and between science and engineering.
The idea behind the book is to demonstrate the different solutions and pitfalls, successes and failures in 12 sites in the Asia-Pacific region, namely Tokyo Bay, the Changjiang River Estuary, the Pearl River Estuary, Hong Kong coastal waters, Pearl Harbour, the Gulf of Thailand, Ho Chi Minh City harbours, Manila Bay, Port Klang waters, port waters of Singapore, the Port...
