ABSTRACT

The dynamism of coastal landscapes is well known, and over the years multi-scalar efforts have been made to understand this aspect by mapping and analyzing changes in regional shorelines. Oceanic climate change can affect multiple spheres of human life, including resource extraction, trade, culture and health. There are many such issues emerging from the shifts occurring in the oceans of today, and we are still in the process of uncovering the multiple ways in which this can play out through interlinked physical, chemical and ecological processes and attempting to grapple with the social consequences.