Resilience and Sustainability of the Mississippi River Delta as a Coupled Natural-Human System
The Mississippi River Delta is home to more than two million people and is a hub for energy, transportation, and petrochemical industry of national importance in the United States. It is also home to 40% of coastal wetlands in the contiguous United States, which provide natural habitats for hundreds...
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| author | Yi Jun Xu (Ed.) Nina Siu-Ngan Lam (Ed.) Kam-biu Liu (Ed.) |
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| description | The Mississippi River Delta is home to more than two million people and is a hub for energy, transportation, and petrochemical industry of national importance in the United States. It is also home to 40% of coastal wetlands in the contiguous United States, which provide natural habitats for hundreds of species of fish and wildlife, as well as for millions of migrating birds in North America each year. However, this delta has been losing land at a rapid speed and its existence is being seriously threatened. A number of factors have contributed to the current situation, including reduced riverine sediment supply, coastal land erosion, subsidence, and sea level rise. In an attempt to determine resilience of the Mississippi River Delta, this book collected 14 articles that present the latest assessments of the river delta in five aspects: 1) riverine processes and sediment availability, 2) sediment deposition and land creation, 3) wetland loss, saltwater intrusion and subsidence, 4) community resilience and planning, and 5) review and synthesis. This holistic approach to investigating a river delta as a coupled natural-human system can be applicable for assessing other populated and industrialized deltaic regions in the world. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-583182024-03-30T02:52:44Z Resilience and Sustainability of the Mississippi River Delta as a Coupled Natural-Human System Yi Jun Xu (Ed.) Nina Siu-Ngan Lam (Ed.) Kam-biu Liu (Ed.) GE1-350 H1-99 Sustainability Mississippi River Delta River deltas Coupled Natural-Human Systems Resilience thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVG Environmental economics The Mississippi River Delta is home to more than two million people and is a hub for energy, transportation, and petrochemical industry of national importance in the United States. It is also home to 40% of coastal wetlands in the contiguous United States, which provide natural habitats for hundreds of species of fish and wildlife, as well as for millions of migrating birds in North America each year. However, this delta has been losing land at a rapid speed and its existence is being seriously threatened. A number of factors have contributed to the current situation, including reduced riverine sediment supply, coastal land erosion, subsidence, and sea level rise. In an attempt to determine resilience of the Mississippi River Delta, this book collected 14 articles that present the latest assessments of the river delta in five aspects: 1) riverine processes and sediment availability, 2) sediment deposition and land creation, 3) wetland loss, saltwater intrusion and subsidence, 4) community resilience and planning, and 5) review and synthesis. This holistic approach to investigating a river delta as a coupled natural-human system can be applicable for assessing other populated and industrialized deltaic regions in the world. 2021-02-12T02:01:54Z 2021-02-12T02:01:54Z 2018-10-18 09:41:20 2018 book 29140 9783038972570 9783038972563 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/58318 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/801 https://play.google.com/books/publish/a/14935057684283403269#details/ISBN:9783038972563 https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/801 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-03897-257-0 10.3390/books978-3-03897-257-0 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783038972570 9783038972563 268 open access |
| spellingShingle | GE1-350 H1-99 Sustainability Mississippi River Delta River deltas Coupled Natural-Human Systems Resilience thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVG Environmental economics Yi Jun Xu (Ed.) Nina Siu-Ngan Lam (Ed.) Kam-biu Liu (Ed.) Resilience and Sustainability of the Mississippi River Delta as a Coupled Natural-Human System |
| title | Resilience and Sustainability of the Mississippi River Delta as a Coupled Natural-Human System |
| title_full | Resilience and Sustainability of the Mississippi River Delta as a Coupled Natural-Human System |
| title_fullStr | Resilience and Sustainability of the Mississippi River Delta as a Coupled Natural-Human System |
| title_full_unstemmed | Resilience and Sustainability of the Mississippi River Delta as a Coupled Natural-Human System |
| title_short | Resilience and Sustainability of the Mississippi River Delta as a Coupled Natural-Human System |
| title_sort | resilience and sustainability of the mississippi river delta as a coupled natural human system |
| topic | GE1-350 H1-99 Sustainability Mississippi River Delta River deltas Coupled Natural-Human Systems Resilience thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVG Environmental economics |
| topic_facet | GE1-350 H1-99 Sustainability Mississippi River Delta River deltas Coupled Natural-Human Systems Resilience thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVG Environmental economics |
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