부산대학교 도서관

This book describes and analyzes the pattern of advance and retreat on the world's coastlines in recent decades. Summarizing and illustrating the evidence for coastline changes and discussing possible explanations, it provides an analytical framework for the elucidation of process and change in coastal environments. More than two-thirds of the book is devoted to the evidence of coastal change in 95 countries. This is followed by discussions of the varied categories of coastal change including cliffed, glaciated and periglaciated, emerging and submerging, volcanic, deltaic, swampy, and artificial coastlines.