Clean Coastal Waters: Understanding and Reducing the Effects of Nutrient Pollution
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Book Description
Environmental problems in coastal ecosystems can sometimes be attributed to excess nutrients flowing from upstream watersheds into estuarine settings. This nutrient over-enrichment can result in toxic algal blooms, shellfish poisoning, coral reef destruction, and other harmful outcomes. All U.S. coasts show signs of nutrient over-enrichment, and scientists predict worsening problems in the years ahead.
Clean Coastal Waters explains technical aspects of nutrient over-enrichment and proposes both immediate local action by coastal managers and a longer-term national strategy incorporating policy design, classification of affected sites, law and regulation, coordination, and communication.
Highlighting the Gulf of Mexico's "Dead Zone," the Pfiesteria outbreak in a tributary of Chesapeake Bay, and other cases, the book explains how nutrients work in the environment, why nitrogen is important, how enrichment turns into over-enrichment, and why some environments are especially susceptible. Economic as well as ecological impacts are examined.
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Explains technical aspects of nutrient over-enrichment and proposes both immediate local action by coastal managers and a longer-term national strategy incorporating policy design, classification of affected sites, law and regulation, coordination, and communication. DLC: Nutrient pollution of water--U.S.
Clean Coastal Waters: Understanding and Reducing the Effects of Nutrient Pollution,National Research Council,Committee on the Causes,Management of Eutrophication,National Research Council,National Academies Press,0309069483,Coastal Ecology,Coastal zone management,Environmental Conservation & Protection - General,Environmental Engineering & Technology,Environmental Science,Environmental Studies,Government policy,Life Sciences - Ecology,Life Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems,Marine Pollution,Marine eutrophication,Nutrient pollution of water,Science,Science/Mathematics,United States
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