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Economic and ecological trade-offs of coastal reclamation in the Hangzhou Bay, China

Ecological Indicators, 2021
Due to the growing demand for land resources, coastal reclamation has become a global land use practice. Although the reclamation of coastal wetlands brings substantial economic benefits, it can lead to a series of adverse ecological impacts ...
Lefeng Qiu, Min Zhang, Bibing Zhou, Yuanzheng Cui, Zhoulu Yu, Tao Liu, Shaohua Wu   +6 more
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Spatio-Temporal Heterogeneity and Cumulative Ecological Impacts of Coastal Reclamation in Coastal Waters

Remote Sensing, 2023
The coastal reclamation, as one of the most extreme transformations of the ocean space by humans, still lacks scientific quantitative evaluating methods to a large extent, compared with the evolution of land use patterns.
Jingfang Lu, Xianqing Lv, Honghua Shi
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Legal Standing of Coastal Reclamation: Islamic and Positive Law Perspectives [PDF]

Hasanuddin Law Review, 2016
In several regions, the implementation of reclamation in Indonesia caused much conflict. At least, it caused by three interests; the interest of the government, employers, and society (fishermen).
Supriadi
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Quantification of intensive hybrid coastal reclamation for revealing its impacts on macrozoobenthos [PDF]

Environmental Research Letters, 2015
Managing and identifying the sources of anthropogenic stress in coastal wetlands requires an in-depth understanding of relationships between species diversity and human activities.
Jiaguo Yan, Baoshan Cui, Jingjing Zheng, Tian Xie, Qing Wang, Shanze Li   +5 more
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Habitat modification in relation to coastal reclamation and its impacts on waterbirds along China's coast [PDF]

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2019
The eastern coast of China provides a network of Important Bird Areas (IBAs) as feeding and breeding habitats, as well as migratory corridors for a large variety of waterbirds.
Tiantian Ma, Xiaowen Li, Junhong Bai, Baoshan Cui   +3 more
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Social network analysis of intergovernmental relations and policy tools in China’s coastal reclamation management [PDF]

Frontiers in Marine Science
As an effective means of sea development and utilization, high-intensity coastal reclamation activities lead to increasingly prominent ecological problems.
Hongbo Gong, Xiangmei He, Xiangmei He, Jialin Li, Peng Tian, Peng Tian, Shunyi Ai, Yongchao Liu, Yongchao Liu   +8 more
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Towards an Urban Political Ecology of Coastal Land Reclamation

Geo: Geography and Environment
Coasts, deltas and estuaries have been reshaped for generations by land reclamation projects for the purposes of expanding settlements and agricultural lands as well as protecting coasts.
Jonas Hein
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Reclamation of tidal flats to paddy soils reshuffles the soil microbiomes along a 53-year reclamation chronosequence: Evidence from assembly processes, co-occurrence patterns and multifunctionality

Environment International, 2023
Coastal soil microbiomes play a key role in coastal ecosystem functioning and are intensely threatened by land reclamation. However, the impacts of coastal reclamation on soil microbial communities, particularly on their assembly processes, co-occurrence
Cheng Chen, Guoyu Yin, Lijun Hou, Yinghui Jiang, Dongyao Sun, Xia Liang, Ping Han, Yanling Zheng, Min Liu   +8 more
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Land Reclamation in a Coastal Metropolis of Saudi Arabia: Environmental Sustainability Implications [PDF]

, 2022
Coastal reclamation for residential, tourism, and commercial developments in the Arabian Peninsula and other global regions has dramatically increased in recent decades.
Maher S. Alshammari, Naji Akbar, Wisam E. M. Mohammed, Ismaila Rimi Abubakar, Wadee Ahmed Ghanem Al-Gehlani, Umar Lawal Dano, Eltahir Mohamed Elhadi Abdalla, Ali M. AlQahtany   +7 more
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Effect of Seawall Embankment Reclamation on the Distribution of Cr, Cu, Pb and Zn Pollution in Invasive Spartina alterniflora and Native Phragmites australis Coastal Saltmarshes of East China

Biology, 2023
Coastal reclamation by seawall embankments and the spread of invasive C4 perennial grass Spartina alterniflora have recently become more prevalent in eastern China’s coastal wetlands.
Jian Li, Zhanrui Leng, Hui Jia, Lili Wei, Taitiya Kenneth Yuguda, Daolin Du   +5 more
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