Overview
- Contains innovative and original data for researches, practitioners, NGOs and graduate students in the fields of coastal zone research, land use change, and remote sensing
- Presents detailed high-resolution maps from a variety of remotely sensed sites
- Includes a step-by-step guide on how to tie together remote sensing data and field survey data
Part of the book series: Coastal Research Library (COASTALRL, volume 33)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
- Aquaculture mapping
- Climate Change impacts on mangroves
- Deforestation
- Environmental Degradation
- Estuarine space of Ecuador
- Food Security in Ecuador
- Land use / land cover change
- Local Livelihoods in Ecuador
- Mangrove Forests
- Shrimp Farms
- coastal sciences
- remote sensing/photogrammetry
- climate change
- Systematic Botany
- marine and freshwater sciences
About this book
This book uses five decades of map data, air photos, and medium to high-resolution satellite imagery to track the expansions of aquaculture and the loss of both estuarine and mangrove land covers in Ecuador. The results are staggering. In some regions, Ecuador has lost almost 50% of its estuarine space and approximately 80% of its mangrove forest. The current estuarine land cover bears no resemblance to the historic estuarine land cover. The analysis is complete from 1968 to 2014. The analysis covers all the major estuaries of mainland Ecuador. The research expands beyond purely land cover into the land use of the estuaries and the implications of the land cover transitions. The author lived in Ecuador's estuarine environments for almost two years studying this area. During this time he conducted mapping workshops with local residents, conducted 100 interviews with local actors, conducted six group discussions with fisherfolk syndicates, conducted eight presentations, worked ona shrimp farm. He was employed by the Ministry of the Environment on a Prometeo fellowship for one-year researching estuarine health and worked on mangrove replanting projects in the estuaries. In addition to the remote sensing data, the author provides a contextual framework to the analysis. It is not just hard numbers that are presented, but a remote sensing analysis tied to local actors that tell a coherent almost 50 -year estuarine story at the national, provincial, and local scales
The book is intended for researchers, academics, graduate students, NGOs, and government actors including those who work in development, environment, and policy implementation. It is suitable supplemental reading for students in courses related to the coastal zone, land use change, and remote sensing. The electronically supplementary material includes all the related data to underpin the analysis as well as all the resulting GIS files.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Stuart E. Hamilton is an Associate Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography and Geosciences at Salisbury University in Maryland. He is co-PI on a research team awarded $1.8 million to explore the implications of aquaculture on the wild fisheries of Lake Victoria. He has published extensively on land cover changes related to mangrove forests and aquaculture in journals such as Nature Climate Change, the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, PloS One, and Global Ecology & Biogeography. Also, he has co-authored a book chapter on the remote sensing of mangrove change in the Coastal Research Library Springer book series. He worked for the Ministry of the Environment in Ecuador during 2015 and 2016 on a Prometeo Fellowship studying estuarine processed in the northern estuaries of Ecuador during which time he completed most of the research for this manuscript.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mangroves and Aquaculture
Book Subtitle: A Five Decade Remote Sensing Analysis of Ecuador’s Estuarine Environments
Authors: Stuart E. Hamilton
Series Title: Coastal Research Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22240-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22239-0Published: 24 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22242-0Published: 25 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-22240-6Published: 09 August 2019
Series ISSN: 2211-0577
Series E-ISSN: 2211-0585
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 195
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 62 illustrations in colour
Topics: Coastal Sciences, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Environmental Science and Engineering, Climate Change, Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Marine & Freshwater Sciences
Industry Sectors: Aerospace