Coastal environments : problems and perspective / edited by K. S. Jayappa and A. C. Narayana

Includes index.

Coastal environment : problems and perspectives / K. S. Jayappa and A. C. Narayana -- PART I : COASTAL RESOURCES : Mineral resources of coastal tracts of India / K. S. Jayappa and A. C. Narayana -- Coastal and marine fisheries resources of Kerala - conservation and sustainable development / B. Madhusodana Kurup -- Coastal fishery resources of India with special reference to Karnataka - management implications / S. M. Shivaprakash -- Bioresources of coastal sand dunes - are they neglected? / K. P. Sridhar -- PART II : COASTAL LANDFORMS : Evolution of coastal landforms Southern Karnataka : a remote sensing approach / K. S. Jayappa, G.T. Vijaya Kumar and Avinash Kumar -- Long-term Morphological changes of Shoreline and Estuaries along the Northern Kerala Coast - remote sensing and GIS based study / P. V. Vijayan, H. Gangadhar Bhat and M. S. Vinaya -- Coastal landform changes in and around cochin and their implications in coastal zone management / C. P. Priju and A. C. Narayana -- Delineation of submerged Paleo-shoreline and Paleo-channels along the Southern Karnataka coast using remote sensing / M. S. Vinaya, H. Gangadhar Bhat and K. S. Jayappa -- Preparation of land use/ land cover map as an input to universal soil loss equation through remote sensing and GIS / G. S. Dwarakish and K. Asha Jyothi -- PART III : SEDIMENT TRANSPORT AND MAINTENANCE DREDGING : Alongshore sediment transport and maintenance dredging practices in major ports of India / M. M. Kamath -- Effect of hydro-meteorological conditions on sediment transport - a case study in Hugli Estuary using radiotracers / Noble Jacob, U. Saravana, U. P. Kulkarni, G. N. Mendhekar, S. V. Navada and K. Charkraborty -- Application of remote sensing and mike-21 for sediment dynamic off Mangalore coast / G. S. Dwarakish and K. Sankar Babu =-- PART IV : COASTAL EROSION AND MANAGEMENT : Coastal erosion and management / K. S. Jayappa and A. C. Narayana -- Breakwaters - an innovative hard option for coastal erosion mitigation measures / Kiran G. Shirlal, Subba Rao and B. Radheshyam -- Miramar (Goa) beach management project : an oceanographic evaluation / Antonio Mascarenhas and Baban Ingole -- Failure analysis of seawalls along Karnataka Coast and recent trends in coastal protection / Subba Rao, B. Radheshyam, K. Subrahmanya, V. R. Chandramohan, D. H. Raju, U. Shetty and K. S. Jayappa -- PART V : APPLICATION OF RS AND GIS AND FLORA IN ENVIRONMENTAL GEOSCIENCE STUDIES : Remote sensing in geological and environmental studies / K. Ganesha Raj -- Modeling spatio-temporal distribution of surface runoff in understanding terrain using remote sensing and GIS / N. S. Ananda, K. H. V. Durga Rao and H. Gangadhara Bhat -- Status of coastal gondwanan - a floristic perspective / A. Rajanikanth