Synopsis
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 studios. This book presents papers from a symposium dealing with the complex problems resulting from the ever increasing development of the southeastern coastal region. An interdisciplinary approach was taken with a view to developing sustainable development concepts. Twenty-six papers are included by fifty-five contributors representing a variety of disciplines such as economics, environmental health and sciences, marine science, and statistics. The topics covered include policy in its broadest sense, environmental resources, and population trends.
Booknews
Twenty-six collected papers from the Sustainable Development in the Southeastern Coastal Zone symposium, held at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, March, 1993, dealing with the complex problems associated with the increasing development of the region. The contributors discuss the environmental impacts of urbanization including eutrophication, toxics, wetlands, fisheries, water resources, public health, and environmental politics, emphasizing concepts of sustainable development as solutions to environmental and population trends. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.