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Coastal Zone Management of West Bengal – A Review


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Sea level rise due to global warming leading to changing coastal environmental scenarios is a very recent phenomenon. As a result, coastal climate like relative humidity, river flow rates and run off, fertility of coastal soils, distribution of coastal biomes, characters of tidal flow regime and wave actions, pattern of sedimentation and sedimentary environment, nutrient upwelling and downwelling, chemical parameters of coastal waters, frequency of cyclonic storms, storm surges and coastal inundation thereon have been changing with time. Monitoring integrated coastal zone management including proper steps of coastal protection applying useful and befitted coastal engineering structures, and the proper implementation of the roles of exclusive economic zone along with the coastal zone regulations may mitigate such problems.

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Coastal Zone Management, EEZ, CRZ, Revetment, Groins, Seawall, Bulkheads, Embankments, Porcupines.
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Gautam Kumar Das
19, Raj Krishna Pal Lane, Kolkata – 700 075, India

Abstract


Sea level rise due to global warming leading to changing coastal environmental scenarios is a very recent phenomenon. As a result, coastal climate like relative humidity, river flow rates and run off, fertility of coastal soils, distribution of coastal biomes, characters of tidal flow regime and wave actions, pattern of sedimentation and sedimentary environment, nutrient upwelling and downwelling, chemical parameters of coastal waters, frequency of cyclonic storms, storm surges and coastal inundation thereon have been changing with time. Monitoring integrated coastal zone management including proper steps of coastal protection applying useful and befitted coastal engineering structures, and the proper implementation of the roles of exclusive economic zone along with the coastal zone regulations may mitigate such problems.

Keywords


Coastal Zone Management, EEZ, CRZ, Revetment, Groins, Seawall, Bulkheads, Embankments, Porcupines.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.24906/isc%2F2022%2Fv36%2Fi1%2F211807