ABSTRACT
Estuaries worldwide are in severe decline, mainly as a result of pollution and the indirect impacts of climate change. This gives rise to an increasing awareness of the profound impact of humans on the functioning of estuarine ecosystems, and consequently to the need for approaches capable of sustaining those systems and where necessary, restoring them (Hughes et al. 2005). General environmental concern gave rise, approximately 2 decades ago, to the emergence of the idea of sustainable development (Pulselli et al. 2008), but researchers from different disciplines still attempt to understand and dene more precisely the meaning of the term. Despite this, the most widely adopted denition has been “development that satises present
CONTENTS
3.1 Introduction ..................................................................................................63 3.2 An Estuarine-System Coastal Model: The Case Study of the
Xiangshan Gang (East China Sea) ............................................................. 67 3.2.1 Problematic ....................................................................................... 67 3.2.2 Aim .................................................................................................... 67 3.2.3 Study System ....................................................................................68 3.2.4 Conceptual Diagram, Model Structure, and Main
Equations ...........................................................................................68 3.2.5 Results ...............................................................................................72
