Sustainable Development in the Southeastern Coastal Zone

by Vernberg, F. John; Vernberg, Winona B.; Siewicki, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9781570031984
• ISBN10: 1570031983
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr

Summary

Rapid population growth in the southeastern coastal zone has had an important influence on both resource management policy at the federal, state, regional, and local levels and the findings of environmental impact studies. This volume presents papers from a symposium dealing with the complex problems resulting from the ever-increasing development of the southeastern coastal region. Offering an interdisciplinary approach to developing sustainable development concepts, these twenty-six papers represent a variety of disciplines-including economics, environmental health and sciences, marine science, and statistics -- and cover such subjects as environmental resources, population trends, and policy issues related to sustainable development.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix	(2)
Contributors	xi
Introduction: Sustainable Development	1	(6)
Robert L. Beekman
F. John Vernberg
Winona B. Vernberg
Policy	7	(104)
Land Settlement, Public Policy, and the Environmental Future of the Southeast Coast	7	(18)
Leonard Shabman
State Perspective in Coastal Zone Management	25	(6)
Christopher L. Brooks
Local Polices to Control Coastal Growth in the Waccamaw Region	31	(24)
Jan S. Davis
Joe W. T. Burch
David M. Essex
Mark H. Hoeweler
Mark E. Kinsey
John M. Penney
William J. Schwartzkopf
Population Trends in the Coastal Area, Concentrating on South Carolina	55	(20)
Walter P. Bailey
Conceptual Models Relevant to Sustaining Coastal Zone Resources	75	(6)
Eugene P. Odum
A Crisis and Opportunity in Coastal Oceans: Coastal Fisheries as a Case Study	81	(8)
John Mark Dean
Geographic Information Systems for Sustainable Development in the Southeastern United States: A Review of Applications and Research Needs	89	(22)
William K. Michener
David P. Lanter
Paula F. Houhoulis
Development and the Environment	111	(174)
Coastal Wetlands	111	(6)
Ruth Patrick
Ecology of Southeastern Salt Marshes	117	(18)
F. J. Vernberg
Anthropogenic Impacts on Salt Marshes--A Review	135	(36)
John E. Weinstein
Sustainable Development in the Southeastern Coastal Zone: Environmental Impacts on Fisheries	171	(16)
Donald E. Hoss
David W. Engel
The Use of Biological Measures in Assessments of Toxicants in the Coastal Zone	187	(34)
Edward R. Long
The Effects of Urbanization on Human and Ecosystem Health	221	(20)
W. B. Vernberg
G. I. Scott
S. H. Strozier
J. Bemiss
J. W. Daugomah
New Microbiological Approaches for Assessing and Indexing Contamination Loading in Estuaries and Marine Waters	241	(24)
W. D. Watkins
W. Burkhardt, III
Microbial Biotransformations of Metals: Effects on Altering the Trophic Availability of Metals	265	(20)
Alan W. Decho
Urbanization Effects on Southeastern Estuaries: Case Studies	285	(220)
Eutrophication in Estuaries and Coastal Systems: Relationships of Physical Alterations, Salinity Stratification, and Hypoxia	285	(34)
Robert J. Livingston
Long-term Trends in Nutrient Generation by Point and Nonpoint Sources in the Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine Basin	319	(24)
Donald W. Stanley
Geographic Information Systems for Sustainable Development: South Carolina's Edisto River Basin Project	343	(12)
William D. Marshall
Geographic Information Processing Assessment of the Impacts of Urbanization on Localized Coastal Estuaries: A Multidisciplinary Approach	355	(34)
Dwayne E. Porter
William K. Michener
Tom Siewicki
Don Edwards
Christopher Corbett
The Effects of Coastal Development on Watershed Hydrography and the Transport of Organic Carbon	389	(24)
Matthew Wahl
H. N. McKellar, Jr.
Thomas M. Williams
Water Quality in Two High-salinity Estuaries: Effects of Watershed Alteration	413	(32)
Elizabeth R. Blood
Pauley A. Smith
Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbon and Trace Metal Burdens in Sediment and the Oyster, Crassostrea virginica Gmelin, From Two High-salinity Estuaries in South Carolina	445	(32)
Alan R. Fortner
Marion Sanders
Sharon W. Lemire
Urbanization Effects on the Fauna of a Southeastern U.S.A. Bar-built Estuary	477	(28)
Michael H. Fulton
G. Thomas Chandler
Geoffrey I. Scott
Summary	505	(12)
Achieving Sustainable Development in the Southeastern Coastal Zone: Roundtable Discussion of Science in Support of Resource Management	505	(4)
Donald Scavia
Robert Boyles, Jr.
Isobel C. Sheifer
Sustainable Development in the Southeastern Coastal Zone: A Summary	509	(8)
Carl J. Sindermann
Index	517