Open AccessResearchers focus attention on coastal response to climate change
Author(s) -
Anderson John,
Rodriguez Antonio,
Fletcher Charles,
Fitzgerald Duncan
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/01eo00304
Subject(s) - climate change , global warming , sea level rise , geography , global change , population , population growth , climatology , environmental resource management , environmental science , oceanography , geology , demography , sociology
The world's population has been steadily migrating toward coastal cities, resulting in severe stress on coastal environments. But the most severe human impact on coastal regions may lie ahead as the rate of global sea‐level rise accelerates and the impacts of global warming on coastal climates and oceanographic dynamics increase [ Varekamp and Thomas , 1998; Hinrichsen , 1999; Goodwin et al. , 2000]. Little is currently being done to forecast the impact of global climate change on coasts during the next century and beyond. Indeed, there are still many politicians, and even some scientists, who doubt that global change is a real threat to society.