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Coastal Shoreline Changes in Chennai: Environment Impacts and Control Strategies of Southeast Coast, Tamil Nadu

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The coastal zone is certainly an active, fragile, and complex environment where multiple forces and processes interact with each other and is a part of global system. Coastal regions are threatened by natural processes such as erosion driven by storm surge and the effect of the uncontrolled groins constructed for coastal management activities. Coastal zone has been critically disturbed and is subjected to change continuously by man for creation and growth of industry, resources abstraction, tourism, and urbanization. This set of events had resulted to a series of undesirable environmental impacts such as rapid erosion, depletion of marine life, and overall reduction of coastal biodiversity. This study is based on an analysis of a case study dataset of long-term coastal changes in Chennai. The present chapter seeks to undertake a general study of adaptation and protection measures against coastal erosion and its impacts on environment. Chennai indicates a storm strengthening coastal erosion that is related to anthropogenic activities as shown by the analysis of shoreline change rate obtained from the multi-date satellite data. Coastal erosion has become a serious problem along a significant portion of coastline of many countries. Under present and future environmental conditions, the world requires adequate and performing coastal protection plans that are flexible, maintainable, multifunctional, and economically effective to enable solving the immediate coastal erosion issues.

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  1. Centre for Applied Geology Gandhigram Rural Institute – DU, Chinnalapatti, Tamil Nadu, India

    Nithu Raj

  2. Centre for Applied Geology, Gandhigram Rural Institute, Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, India

    R. A. Rejin Nishkalank & S. Chrisben Sam

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Raj, N., Rejin Nishkalank, R.A., Chrisben Sam, S. (2020). Coastal Shoreline Changes in Chennai: Environment Impacts and Control Strategies of Southeast Coast, Tamil Nadu. In: Hussain, C. (eds) Handbook of Environmental Materials Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58538-3_223-1

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