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Mycenaean Greece and the Aegean world : palace and province in the late Bronze Age
\"In this book, Kramer-Hajos examines the Euboean Gulf region in central Greece to explain its flourishing during the post-palatial period. Providing a social and political history of the region in the Late Bronze Age, she focuses on the interactions between this 'provincial' coastal area and the core areas where the Mycenaean palaces were located. Drawing on network and agency theory, two current and highly effective methodologies in prehistoric Mediterranean archaeology, Kramer-Hajos argues that the Euboean Gulf region thrived when it was part of a decentralized coastal and maritime network, and declined when it was incorporated in a highly centralized mainland-looking network. Her research and analysis contributes new insights to our understanding of the mechanics and complexity of the Bronze Age Aegean collapse\"-- Provided by publisher.
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GEOSPATIAL MODELING OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF TOURIST ATTRACTIONS FOR THE FUNCTIONAL DELIMITATION OF COASTAL ZONES
Coastline attracts people for recreational, residential, entrepreneurial, and industrial activity, resulting in a worldwide phenomenon of coastalization – the shift to the coasts. The proximity to marine coasts is, therefore, a competitive advantage and a development resource for coastal regions around the globe. However, the efficient use of coastal economic-geographical position depends on the numerous external and internal factors, and requires, firstly, a functional delimitation of the coastal zone, and, secondly, an integrated coastal zone management. This article studies the relationship between the proximity to the seacoast and the development of the tourism sector. The aim is to identify the geographical boundaries of using the seaside position in the interest of tourism development; in other words, we identify the functional boundaries of the coastal zone associated with tourist attractions. The research area covers two Russian regions located on the Baltic Sea (Kaliningrad Oblast) and the Sea of Japan (Primorsky Krai). The findings reveal that the optimal zone for developing coastal tourism is within a 10km of the sea, with the most preferable zone extending no further than 1km from the coast. The density of tourist attractions has a positive correlation with the concentration of service sector facilities and infrastructure.
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The Essence of the Competitiveness of Coastal Regions
The article aims at defining the key theoretical concepts related to providing the competitiveness of coastal regions and studying the essence of the terms \"coastal region\", \"competitiveness\", \"competitiveness of the coastal region\". The features and characteristics of the coastal region are determined, the classification of the region's competitiveness is expanded, which has helped to suggest a new interpretation of the \"coastal region\" term. A coastal region is an administrative-territorial unit that due to its geographic position has access to the sea coast with its own waters, specializes in coastal economic and ecosystem activities, creates its own maritime complex of industries with the appropriate infrastructure, faces specific social problems and environmental requirements, has its own cultural and historical heritage, the latter reflecting the maritime theme. A binary understanding of the “coastal region” term is suggested: coastal regions are treated as oblasts and as territorial communities, the administrative boundaries of which extend to the coastline. It has been found out that the competitiveness of a coastal region is an indicator emphasizing the region's ability to respond to external challenges; ensuring the use of ecosystem approach to designing the best possible region's economic structure; overcoming seasonality in tourism and recreation; taking into account the specifics of social and environmental problems of the region; preserving the cultural and mental identity of the region to create favorable conditions for the inhabitants. To create a concept for ensuring the competitiveness of coastal regions it is necessary to make not only theoretical generalizations, but also a comprehensive diagnosis of the current state of competitiveness, which is impossible without discussing the components of competitiveness, as comprehensive assessment will be done with regard to them.
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West Coast wild : a nature alphabet
\"This stunning nature alphabet book explores the fascinating ecosystem of the Pacific West Coast a magnificent area that combines an ancient rainforest, a rugged beach and a vast, open ocean, and where whales, bears, wolves, eagles and a rich variety of marine species thrive in an interconnected web of life...The text and art have been carefully checked for scientific accuracy. The book also includes a note about the Pacific West Coast and suggestions for exploring the region and further reading.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Saving the Chesapeake
The decades-long effort to protect one of the nation's most
important waterways The Chesapeake Bay is the largest
estuary in the United States and the site of some of the most
significant moments in the nation's history. This book provides for
the first time a comprehensive story of the effort to save and
protect its waters and living resources for future generations.
Andrew Ramey describes the enormous task-engaging the states in the
Bay's watershed and the federal government since 1983-to realize
one of the largest, most complex, and most expensive ecosystem
restoration projects ever undertaken. He also unfolds a dramatic
political narrative, tracing the momentous changes in American
environmental politics from the \"green\" heyday of the 1960s and
1970s to the environmental movement's collision with the Reagan
administration in the 1980s and the movement's ultimate triumph
over the anti-environmental backlash of the 1990s and early 2000s.
Along the way, he clarifies assumptions about the environmental
movement, the major parties' roles in it, and our society's efforts
to forge sustainable relationships with the natural world.
Saving the Chesapeake reveals how a campaign to rescue
this crucial resource altered the course of American
environmentalism.
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Exploring the Potential of Soil Salinity Assessment through Remote Sensing and GIS: Case Study in the Coastal Rural Areas of Bangladesh
Soil salinity is a negative impact of climate change, and it is a significant problem for the coastal region of Bangladesh, which has been increasing in the last four decades. The issue of soil salinity substantially limits the agricultural crop production in coastal areas. Therefore, a soil salinity assessment is essential for proper land-use planning in agricultural crop production. This research was carried out to determine the soil salinity area with different salinity levels in Barguna Sadar Upazila (sub-district). The remote sensing technique, which is a potentially quick yet effective method for the soil salinity estimation in data-scarce conditions, was applied. The methodology employed the Landsat 8 OLI dataset along with nine soil salinity indices to develop a soil salinity map. The maps were from Soil Resource Development Institute (SRDI), and low NDVI value (−0.01 to 0.48) was produced using satellite images illustrate the extent of the soil salinity for the study area. However, nine linear regressions, which were made between the pixel value of the satellite-based generated map and ground truth soil salinity data, that is, the EC value, indicate a maximum R2 value for the salinity index SI 7 = G × R/B, representing a value of 0.022. This minimal R2 value indicates a negligible relationship between the ground EC value and the pixel value of the salinity index generated map, inferring that the indices are not sufficient to assess the soil salinity. Nonetheless, this research’s findings offer a guide for researchers to investigate alternative geospatial approaches for this geophysical condition.
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Semi-Lagrangian numerical simulation method for tides in coastal regions
In this paper, a numerical computation method is proposed to simulate tides in coastal regions. The proposed method is based on the hyperbolic form of governing equations and employs a semi-Lagrangian scheme to ensure the accuracy and stability of numerical computations. Open and wall boundary conditions can be treated universally by combining them with the semi-Lagrangian scheme. Furthermore, the method is applied to some benchmark problems of shallow water to examine its performances in wave propagation, wave transparency through open boundaries, and tides in semi-enclosed bays. The results obtained demonstrate that the proposed method can be utilized as a practical tool to investigate tidal dynamics in coastal regions.
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Environmental management of coastal regions in the Caspian Sea
Considering rapid population growth and migration, higher accumulation
of communities is noticed in coastal areas. This is especially true
with the coastal areas of the Caspian Sea. In the present investigation
coastal areas between Jouybar to Behshahr region is selected for their
special geographical and ecological locations. Further, adverse impacts
of human, agriculture and industrial activities was examined along side
the above mentioned coasts. It should be pointed out that protected
Miankaleh Wildlife zone which is an internationally recognized wetland,
falls within area of study. In the present study strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and threats method is used for the evaluation of
environmental management status. In this regard, internal and external
factors gained 2.28 and 2.58 scores. This is indicative of the
abundance of weaknesses over strengths and it also shows that
opportunities are more than threats. Subsequently 27 strategies were
developed and quantitative strategic planning matrix method was also
used to score each strategies. The results of quantitative strategic
planning matrix method analysis was programmed in strategic position
and action evaluation matrix. The present situation falls within
\"competitive\" classification. This is indicative of weakness
in coordinating development and environmental strategic plans. The
result of present investigation strongly emphasis on compilation of
strategic environmental plans for the control of population, pollution
emission and land use planning changes. The most important strategies
include development of environmental regulations and better supervision
on enforcement of laws.
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Application of Sustainability Index of Tidal River Management (SITRM) in the Lower Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna Delta
The sustainability index (SI) is a relatively new concept for measuring the performance of water resource systems over long time periods. The purpose of its definition is to provide an indication of the integral behavior of the system with regard to possible undesired consequences if a misbalance in available and required waters occurs. Therefore, the tidal river management (TRM) approach has been implemented for the past three decades (from 1990 to 2020) within the polder system in Southwest Bangladesh to achieve water sustainability. TRM plan and watershed management plan (WMP) have commonalities as both are aimed at ensuring the sustainable use of watershed resources with the management of land, water, and the wider ecosystem of the watershed in an integrated way. The TRM plan focuses mostly on coastal regions, whereas the WMP focuses on both coastal and non-coastal regions. According to this, the aim of this study was to explore the application of the sustainability index of tidal river management (SITRM) in measuring the sustainability of tidal river management in the coastal area of the Lower Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna (GBM) delta. In order to quantify the sustainability of tidal river management, this research first provided the components and indicators of SITRM for the coastal region. The study follows a 5-point Likert scale for opinion survey of key informants and comprises households’ survey of farmers. In addition, it includes Landsat satellite images from Earth Explorer of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and direct field observation to collect information regarding the indicators of SITRM. The study measures the index value of SITRM for identifying the water sustainability of Beel East Khukshia-TRM. The index value was 71.8 out of 100, showing good tidal river management for the Hari–Teka–Bhadra catchment. To achieve water sustainability and aid stakeholders and water managers in decision making, it may be possible to include the SITRM framework in tidal river management projects. In addition, the SITRM is more capable of facing drainage congestion, waterlogging, and climate change issues than watershed sustainability index (WSI), Canadian water sustainability index (CWSI), West Java water sustainability index (WJWSI), and water poverty index (WPI). Therefore, water professionals and policymakers can apply SITRM to assess the resilience of specific TRM schemes for greater sustainability in different coastal regions of the world.
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