Includes bibliographical references

1. The southeast Florida Coastal Zone (SFCZ): a cascade of natural, biological, and human-induced hazards / Charles W. Finkl and Christopher Makowski -- 2. Remote sensing of coastal hazards / Victor V. Klemas -- 3. Determination of human induced coastal changes using RS, GIS and geostatistics / Elif Sertel and Dursun Zafer Seker -- 4. Coastal risk versus vulnerability in an uncertain sea level future / Michael S. Kearney -- 5. Sea-level rise impacts and responses: a global perspective / Sally Brown, Robert J. Nicholls, Colin D. Woodroffe, Susan Hanson, Jochen Hinkel, Abiy S. Kebede, Barbara Neumann, and Athanasios T. Vafeidis -- 6. Estimating the United States population at risk from coastal flood-related hazards / Mark Crowell, Jonathan Westcott, Susan Phelps, Tucker Mahoney, Kevin Coulton, and Dough Bellomo -- 7. Public perception of hurricane-related hazards / Bernhard Lee Lindner and Charles Cockcroft -- 8. Anthropogenic amplification of storm surge damage in th 1935 "Labor Day" hurricane / Nicholas K. Coch -- 9. Coastal flooding hazard in low-tide and high-tide coasts; evidence from the North Aegean Coast / Sotiris A. Lycourghiotis and Stathis C. Stiros -- 10. Sea level rise / James Houston -- 11. Conceptualizing seawater intrusion processes in small tropical island via geochemical modeling / Ahmad Zaharin Aris and Sarva Mangala Praveena -- 12. Reducing the risk associated to desalination brine disposal on the coastal areas of Red Sea / Adrian Ciocanea, Viorel Badescu, Richard B. Cathcart, and Charles W. Finkl -- 13. Beach erosion: causes and stabilization / R.G. Dean, T.L. Walton, J.D. Rosati, and L. Absalonsen -- 14. Innovative technique of predicting shoreline change in Developing Countries: case of Accra erosion and causal factors / Kwasi Appeaning-Addo and Emmanuel Lamptey -- 15. Detection of coastal change by geo-informatics means / Jay Gao -- 16. Spatial and numerical methodologies on coastal erosion and flooding risk assessment / Jarbas Bonetti, Antonio Henrique da Fontoura Klein, Mariela Muler, Clarissa Brelinger De Luca, Guilherme Vieira ea Silva, Elírio E. Toldo, Jr., and Mauricio González -- 17. Coastal erosion and protection policies in Europe: from EU programme (Eurosion and interreg projects) to local management / Giovanni Randazzo, Jordi Serra Raventos, and Lanza Stefania -- 18. Coastal dune hazards / Sara Muñoz Vallés and Jesús Cambrollé -- 19. Erosion and management in coastal dunes / Silvia Cristina Marcomini and Ruben Alvaro López -- 20. Coastal hazards from tropical cyclones and extratropical winter storms based on holocene storm chronologies / S.M. May, M. Engel, D. Brill, P. Squire, A. Scheffers, and D. Kelletat -- 21. U.S. Pacific Northwest Coastal hazards: tectonic and climate controls / Paul D. Komar, Jonathan C. Allan, and Peter Ruggiero -- 22. Extreme coastal waves, ocean surges and wave runnup / Zai-Jin You and Peter Nielsen -- 23. Effects of stratification on multi-layered tsunami waves / Monzur A. Imteaz, Fatemeh Mekanik, and Amimul Ahsan -- 24. The hazards of beach litter / A.T. Williams, K. Pond, A. Ergin, and M.J. Cullis -- 25. Coastal hazards from oil spills / Erich R. Gundlach -- 26. Rip currents / Stephen P. Leatherman.