IWG4
Land-Ocean Interactions in Asia and Oceania

Main Organiser
Makoto Taniguchi, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, 335 Takashima-cho, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto 602-0878, Japan.
makoto@chikyu.ac.jp

Co-Organiser(s)
Ming H Wong, Institute for Natural Resources and Environmental Management, Hong Kong Baptist University.
mhwong@hkbu.edu.hk

Lawrence Koe, Environmental Engineering Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University.
ccckoe@ntu.edu.sg

Brief Description
Coastal areas are the most intensively used regions in all countries, through residential, industrial and commercial sites, agriculture, aquaculture and tourism. For instance in the hydrological conditions of the coastal regions, problems arise from conflicts between different uses of coastal land and waters, overexploitation of coastal resources, discharge of wastes and effluents into coastal waters, elevated risk of storm damage, increasing stress by sea level change and growth of coastal population. We would like to invite the papers related on the interactions between land and ocean in Asia and Oceania, such as (1) the nature of dynamic interactions of water, dissolved materials and solid transports, (2) biogeochemical effects on ecosystem in the coastal zones, (3) how changes in various components of the Earth system are affecting coastal zones and altering their role in global cycles, and (5) basin-oriented and/or integrated managements of coastal areas on a susta! inable basis.