Proceedings of Coastal Zone '89, the Sixth Annual Conference on Coastal Zone Management. This collection contains 430 papers with a multidisciplinary perspective on comprehensive coastal and ocean management. Papers review technical knowledge and current practice for the improvement of planning, design, development, and conservation actions related to wetlands, coasts, and oceans. Topics are addressed from different points of view: engineering and science; data gathering and monitoring; legal, regulatory, and political aspects of coastal management; planning, conservation, and development; and public information and citizen participation. This eight-volume set includes five volumes on coastal zones and three volumes in the Coastlines of the World series.

This reader contains 35 reprinted magazine articles divided into four sections. Part I explores basic scientific and economic definitions, principles and methodological problems surrounding biodiversity. The readings in the second part evaluate the consequences of biodiversity loss and their significance in terms of social impacts. Part III deals with value capture mechanisms and the practicalities of their implementation in a number of different socio-economic and cultural settings. An overview of the ethical questions and answers that biodiversity conservation policy often stimulate is presented in the final section. Lacks a subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Presents the results of a study of the sources of nitrate pollution in Chesapeake Bay which found that one-fourth of such pollution came from atmospheric nitrate deposition in the form of acid rain.