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Oceanography at the Margin

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Wastewater Management for Coastal Cities

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Ocean science is concerned with global navigation, fisheries, climate, geology and geophysics, water and energy balances, national security, and the origin of life. Most economic values of the ocean lie along its margin as fisheries, recreation, tourism, transportation, placer deposits, cooling water, and waste assimilative capacity. To make the best of these ocean resources, peoples and their governments must define, appreciate, allocate, and efficiently conserve them. This chapter identifies the non living and living frameworks of the ocean margin into which marine outfalls discharge. These areas have developed over millions of years in dynamic equilibrium with geologic and climatic change to be taken into account in engineering, environmental, and investment decisions on wastewater management.

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Gunnerson, C.G., French, J.A. (1996). Oceanography at the Margin. In: Gunnerson, C.G., French, J.A. (eds) Wastewater Management for Coastal Cities. Environmental Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79729-3_2

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