“…The second section examines flood risk management relating to the urban environment, with examples from a coastal city in Saudi Arabia and a housing development in Mexico. …”

“…Monitoring of the marine and coastal environment is based on recent methods and validated after experiments in the field of marine pollution…”

“…Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a gram negative, halophilic bacterium that occurs in the coastal and estuarine environments worldwide and is implicated in several cases of seafood-born gastroenteritis around the globe. …”

“…It argues that the shares of Asian countries in the OECD countries' market cannot increase without bound, as China and its neighbouring developing economies have basically similar export profiles, competing with each other for market shares for similar products. China's coastal strategy has led to the emergence of a "greater China", encompassing China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. …”

“…It also describes the challenges regarding coastal zone and marine management. Topics covered in the report include greening growth, implementation of environmental policies , international co-operation , climate change, waste management and the 3Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle), and nature and biodiversity. …”

“…It finds that despite substantial increases in GDP, tourism, construction, population density in coastal areas, and road freight transport, progress has been made in decoupling some environmental pressures from economic growth and in developing environmental infrastructure. …”

“…A substantial increase in the number of studies using the optical properties (absorbance and fluorescence) of dissolved organic matter (DOM) as a proxy for its chemical properties in estuaries and the coastal and open ocean has occurred during the last decade. …”

“…From the micro-scale, like coastal processes, to macro-scale, the oceans, the seas and the marine life, play the main role to maintain the earth equilibrium, both from a physical and a chemical point of view. …”

“…This book presents the use of different kinds of remote sensing techniques to obtain original data across global, regional, city, or local scales for exploring climate-related issues such as sea level variation, sea ice dynamics, drought, extreme heat and precipitation, ecosystem services and carbon sequestration, forest and vegetation cover, coastal subsidence, atmospheric carbon monoxide, soil erosion and runoff, and urban heat islands. …”

“…It also includes the effects of tsunami hazard on the coastal environment and infrastructure (structures, lifelines, water resources, bridges, dykes, etc.); and finally the need for emergency medical response preparedness and the prevention of psychological consequences of the affected survivors has been discussed…”

“…SAR remote sensing on ocean and coastal monitoring has become a research hotspot in geoscience and remote sensing. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Elephans photographicus : media archaeology and the history of photography / Erkki Huhtamo -- A mirrow with wings : photography and the new era of communications / Simone Natale -- The traveling daguerreotype : early photography and the U.S. postal system / David M. Henkin -- The telegraph of the past : Nadar and the time of photography / Richard Taws -- With eyes of flesh and glass eyes : railroad image-objects and fantasies of human-machine hybridizations in the mid-nineteenth-century United States / Nicoletta Leonardi -- Peer production in the age of collodion : the bromide patent and the photographic press, 1854-1868 / Lynne Berger -- Two or three things photography did to painting / Jan von Brevern -- Uniqueness multiplied : the daguerrotype and the visual economy of the graphic arts / Steffen Siegel -- Photographs in text : the reproduction of photographs in nineteenth-century scientific communication / Geoffrey Belknap -- In the time of Balzac : the daguerrotype and the discovery/invention of society / Peppino Ortoleva -- Sound photography / Anthony Enns -- Photography, cinema, and perceptual realism in the nineteenth century / Kim Timby -- The double-birth model tested against photography / André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion -- Afterword : media history and history of photography in parallel lines / Geoffrey Batchen and Lisa Gitelman…”