What can we say about changes in the hydrologic cycle on 50-year timescales when we
cannot predict rainfall next week? Eventually, perhaps, a great deal: the overall climate …

1 Ecotoxicology is concerned ultimately with the effects of pollutants on populations not
individuals. Sub-lethal effects, and changes to the environment, can have a greater impact …

The Environment as Hazard offers an understanding of how people around the world deal
with dramatic fluctuations in the local natural systems of air, water, and terrain. Reviewing …

Recent improvements in mapping of global population distribution makes it possible to
estimate the number and distribution of people near coasts with greater accuracy than …

Coastal Geomorphology, Second Edition is a comprehensive and systematic introduction to
this subject and demonstrates the dynamic nature of coastal landforms, providing a …

Coastal areas constitute important habitats, and they contain a large and growing
population, much of it located in economic centers such as London, New York, Tokyo …

The gravest effects of climate change may be those on human migration as millions are
uprooted by shoreline erosion, coastal flood-ing and agricultural disruption …

Global climate change is expected to affect temperature and precipitation patterns, oceanic
and atmospheric circulation, rate of rising sea level, and the frequency, intensity, timing, and …

Global sea level is an indicator of climate change 1, 2, 3, as it is sensitive to both thermal
expansion of the oceans and a reduction of land-based glaciers. Global sea-level rise has …

The global distribution of the human population by elevation is quantified here. As of 1994,
an estimated 1.88× 109 people, or 33.5% of the world's population, lived within 100 vertical …