Coastal Zone Management : United Nations Convention on Law of the Seas-Unclos III

Contents: Preface. 1. The law of the sea convention. 2. Case studies in coastal pollution. 3. Marine pollution in India. 4. Legislation on marine pollution control. Bibliography. Index.

“Coastal engineering, as it relates to harbours, starts with the development of ancient civilizations together with the origin of maritime traffic, perhaps before 3500 B.C.

Docks, breakwaters, and other harbour works were built by hand and often in a grand scale.

Some of the harbour works are still visible in a few of the harbours that exist today, while others have recently been explored by underwater archaeologists. Most of the grander ancient harbour works have disappeared following the fall of the Roman Empire.

Most Ancient coastal efforts were directed to port structures, with the exception of a few placed where life depended on coastline protection. Venice and its lagoon is one such case. Protection of the shore in Italy, England and the Netherlands can be traced back at least to the sixth century. The ancients understood such phenomena as the Mediterranean currents and wind patterns and the wind-wave cause-effect link.

The Romans introduced many revolutionary innovations in harbour design. They learned to build walls underwater and managed to construct solid breakwaters to protect fully exposed harbours. In some cases have reflection may have been used to prevent silting. They also used low, water-surface breakwaters to trip the waves before they reached the main breakwater. They became the first dredgers in the Netherlands to maintain the harbour at Velsen. Silting problems here were solved when the previously sealed solid piers were replaced with new “open”-piled jetties. The Romans also introduced to the world the concept of the holiday at the coast.

This book will be of immense help to all those contemplating to acquire expert knowledge of coastal zone management.”