The Environment in Asia Pacific Harbours / Edition 1

by Eric Wolanski

Overview

In the USA, Asia and Europe, as well as worldwide, trade is growing rapidly and much of it depends on shipping. This is leading to the development of mega-cities and mega-harbours. The marine environment is degrading. Is increasing trade ecologically sustainable? This book addresses this question through harbours in the Asia Pacific region, including Tokyo Bay, the Pearl Estuary, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Ho Chi Minh City, Manila Bay, Jakarta Bay, Bangkok, Singapore, Klang, Pearl Harbour, and Darwin. Much of the world trade goes through these harbours. This book demonstrates, through the writing of eminent scientists in each of these countries, the oceanography and ecosystem science necessary to understand how these urbanised marine ecosystems function. It offers science-based solutions to achieve ecologically sustainable development. These lessons are important not only for the Asia Pacific Region, including Australia, but also worldwide. The book is a wake-up call that all the countries in the Asia Pacific are facing the same, serious socio-economic and environmental problems with varying scales. Each of these countries addresses these issues differently. This book shows that we have much to learn from each other to ensure that development does not need to be at the cost of the environment. I commend this book for its comprehensive coverage of the links between oceanography, ecosystem processes, and socio-economic issues.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402036545
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	03/08/2006
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	498
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

Dr. Eric Wolanski, an internationally recognized coastal oceanographer, is a fellow of the Belgian Academy of Overseas Sciences, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, and the Institution of Engineers Australia. He was awarded an Australian Centenary medal for services in estuarine and coastal oceanography and he is a Leading Scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science with more than 270 publications.

Table of Contents

Contributors     xv
Increasing trade and urbanisation of the Asia Pacific coast   Eric Wolanski     1
Tokyo Bay: its environmental status - past, present and future   Keita Furukawa   Tomonari Okada     15
Ecological network linked by the planktonic larvae of the clam Rudipates Philippinarum in Tokyo Bay   Hirofumi Hinata   Keita Furukawa     35
Circulation processes in Tokyo Bay   Keisuke Nakayama     47
Effects of oceanic water intrusion on the Tokyo Bay environment   Hirofumi Hinata     67
Influence of the deep waterway project on the Changjiang Estuary   Jianrong Zhu   Pingxing Ding   Liquan Zhang   Hui Wu   Huijiang Cao     79
Impact of human activities on the health of ecosystems in the Changjiang Delta region   Jing Zhang   Shi Lun Yang   Zhao Li Xu   Ying Wu     93
Geographical and economical setting of the Pearl River estuary   Mingjiang Zhou   Chaoyu Wu   Shiyu Li   Xiaohong Wang   Qiuhai Liu     113
Physical processes and sediment dynamics in the Pearl River   Lixian Dong   Jilan Su   Yan Li   Xiaoming Xia   Weibing Guan     127
Water quality and phytoplankton blooms in the Pearl River estuary   Yan Li   Liangmin Huang   Jianfang Chen   Mingjiang Zhou   Yehui Tan     139
Pollution studies on mangroves in Hong Kong and mainland China   Nora F.Y. Tam     147
Field and model studies of water quality in Hong Kong   Kwok-Leung Pun     165
Eutrophication dynamics in Hong Kong coastal waters: physical and biological interactions   Joseph H.W. Lee   Paul J. Harrison   Cuiping Kuang   Kedong YiN     187
Marine communities and introduced species in Pearl Harbor, O'ahu, Hawai'i   Steve L. Coles     207
Physical environment in the Gulf of Thailand with emphasis on three important ports   Suphat Vongvisessomjai     229
Environmental issues in the Gulf of Thailand   Gullaya Wattayakorn     249
The environment in Ho Chi Minh City harbours   Nguyen Huu Nhan     261
Biophysical environment of Manila Bay - then and now   Gil S. Jacinto   Imelda B. Velasquez   Maria Lourdes San Diego-McGlone   Cesar L. Villanoy   Fernando B. Siringan     293
Manila Bay: environmental challenges and opportunities   G.S. Jacinto   R. V. Azanza   I.B. Velasquez   F.P. Siringan     309
Carbon flux through bacteria in a eutrophic tropical environment: Port Klang waters   Choon-Weng Lee   Chui-Wei Bong     329
Phytoplankton structure in the tropical port waters of Singapore   Karina Yew-Hoong Gin   Michael J. Holmes   Sheng Zhang   Xiaohua Lin     347
Marine habitats in one of the world's busiest harbours   Loke Ming Chou     377
The physical oceanography of Singapore coastal waters and its implications for oil spills   Eng Soon Chan   Pavel Tkalich   Karina Yew-Hoong Gin   Jeffrey P. Obbard     393
Managing the port of Jakarta Bay: overcoming the legacy of 400 years of adhoc development   Dietriech G. Bengen   Maurice Knight   Ian Dutton     413
Darwin Harbour: water quality and ecosystem structure in a tropical harbour in the early stages of urban development   A. D. McKinnon   N. Smit   S. Townsend   S. Duggan     433
Hydrodynamics of Darwin Harbour   David Williams   Eric Wolanski   Simon Spagnol     461
An estuarine ecohydrology model of Darwin Harbour, Australia   Eric Wolanski   A. David McKinnon   David Williams   Daniel M. Alongi      477
Is harbour development ecologically sustainable?   Eric Wolanski     489
Index     495

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

"The book demonstrates the different solutions and pitfalls, successes and failures in a large number of ports in the Asian Pacific region by means of case studies. It contains 28 chapters … addressing the environmental conditions of the main harbours … . also gives extensive information related to the hydrographic, and oceanographic processes in this area. … The book certainly is of interest for people working in a field that in some way or the other is related to marine environmental issues … ." (Willem J. Vlasblom, Terra et Aqua, Issue 103, 2006)

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