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Academic Press Inc
02 April 2024
Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science, Four Volume Set is the most up-to-date reference work for system based coastal and estuarine ecosystem science and management. It addresses the big issues facing the estuaries and coastal zone; in particular how to best use multi- and inter-disciplinary science to ensure the sustainability of the environment. It focusses on the need to protect and maintain the natural functioning of the estuaries and coasts worldwide while delivering the ecosystem services from which society extract goods and benefits. Structured chapters, written by leaders in the field, include reference lists and additional reading, copious diagrams, case-studies, and especially provide synthesis diagrams and conceptual models of complex issues. The Treatise covers both the natural and social sciences, serving a wide audience which ranges from undergraduate students to established researchers and practitioners. The work avoids autecological studies but focusses on inter-linked physical-chemical-biological-ecosystem processes and associated socio-economic issues in the coastal zone. It examines estuaries and coasts, and their interactions and feedbacks with humanity, from the inland catchment/river basin to the ocean shelf. The new edition builds on and expands the previous version with significant updates and a whole new section on Climate Change and Coastal Ecosystems, covering the resistance and resilience of the estuaries, coasts and other transitional habitats to climate change, thereby determining changes and responses needed over the coming decades.
Editor-in-chief:   , , , ,
Imprint:   Academic Press Inc
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Height: 276mm,  Width: 215mm, 
ISBN:   9780323907989
ISBN 10:   0323907989
Pages:   5400
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Primary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Dan Baird is Senior Professor in the Department of Botany and Zoology at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Prior to this he was Chair of the Department of Zoology, Nelson Mandela University. He obtained his PhD from Stellenbosch in fisheries science, has published more than 100 papers, a number of book chapters, was co-editor and author of “Estuaries of South Africa” (Cambridge University Press, 1999), as well as Volume Editor in the first edition of Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science. He is currently an Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. Professor Baird conducted research and published widely with international fellow academics and was the promotor of 40 PhD graduates. Professor Baird specializes in the fields of ecosystem theory, analysis and modelling, marine and coastal zone ecology & management, fisheries science & management, water quality of and nutrient dynamics in shallow water ecosystems. Professor Michael Elliott is the Director of the Institute of Estuarine & Coastal Studies (IECS) and Professor of Estuarine and Coastal Sciences at the University of Hull, U.K. He is a marine biologist with wide experience in teaching, research, advisory and consultancy work in estuarine and marine aspects of ecological components and communities, and the impacts of human activities, as well as policy, governance, and management of estuaries and coasts. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and of the Society of Biology. Mike has published widely, coauthoring/coediting 15 books and contributing to over 200 scientific publications. Mike has acted as an advisor on many marine and estuarine environmental matters for academia, industry, government, and statutory bodies in Europe and elsewhere. Mike is a past-president of the international Estuarine & Coastal Sciences Association (ECSA) and is also one of the four editors-in-chief of the international journal Estuarine, Coastal & Shelf Science and is on the editorial board of Marine Pollution Bulletin. He is the Sir Walter Murdoch Distinguished Adjunct Professor, Murdoch University, Australia, and also has adjunct professor and research positions at Klaipeda University (Lithuania), the University of Palermo (Italy), and the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Grahamstown. In 2014, he was appointed an independent non-executive member of the UK Marine Science Coordinating Committee and member of the Science Advisory Board of Marine Scotland. In 2014, Mike was awarded the Laureate of the Honorary Winberg Medal of the Russian Hydrobiological Academic Society.

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