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Affinity to Water: The Coastal Zone and Coastal Settlements
Humans have an affinity with water, especially with the coast and the sea. This is not surprising because the coastal zone provides many resources for human use, including economic benefits that accrue from access to ocean navigation, coastal ports at river mouths, fisheries, tourism and recreation. Historically settlements have been established around these resources, and are scattered along coastlines world-wide. In the context of landscape, it is the beauty and visual attributes of coastal areas that attract humans, resulting in more and more people settling on the coast. This human-coastal interface sounds simplistic, but in fact it is an interface that is a complex social-ecological system characterized by natural ecological processes and human-induced changes. The discussions in this chapter investigate the beauty and visual attributes of coastal areas, the landscape and the coastal place character that attracts humans to the coast, and analyse the meaning of ‘sense of place’, where settlements are inherently part of the surrounding natural environment. The chapter also further explores the complex patterns of human-ecological systems and conclude with the importance to manage and plan the interface between these human and nature systems towards a sustainable future. The chapter concludes with the fundamental pattern Affinity To Water [4], instructing us how to deal with the complexities of environments next to water.
Affinity to Water: The Coastal Zone and Coastal Settlements
Humans have an affinity with water, especially with the coast and the sea. This is not surprising because the coastal zone provides many resources for human use, including economic benefits that accrue from access to ocean navigation, coastal ports at river mouths, fisheries, tourism and recreation. Historically settlements have been established around these resources, and are scattered along coastlines world-wide. In the context of landscape, it is the beauty and visual attributes of coastal areas that attract humans, resulting in more and more people settling on the coast. This human-coastal interface sounds simplistic, but in fact it is an interface that is a complex social-ecological system characterized by natural ecological processes and human-induced changes. The discussions in this chapter investigate the beauty and visual attributes of coastal areas, the landscape and the coastal place character that attracts humans to the coast, and analyse the meaning of ‘sense of place’, where settlements are inherently part of the surrounding natural environment. The chapter also further explores the complex patterns of human-ecological systems and conclude with the importance to manage and plan the interface between these human and nature systems towards a sustainable future. The chapter concludes with the fundamental pattern Affinity To Water [4], instructing us how to deal with the complexities of environments next to water.
Affinity to Water: The Coastal Zone and Coastal Settlements
Sustainable Development Goals Series
Roös, Phillip B. (author)
2020-09-16
12 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Coastal settlements , Nature systems , Sense of place , Affinity to water , Coastal ecosystems , Sea level rise , Coastal change , Human systems , Climate change Environment , Sustainable Development , Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning , Urban Ecology , Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings , Earth and Environmental Science
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