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Man’s Response to Sea-level Change

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Sea Surface Studies

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The surface of the undisturbed sea is called the geoid. However, this surface is neither level nor still. Even if gravity waves are absent, it is unusual if the sea surface is not undergoing some change. Man has an uneasy relationship with sea level. In many respects it is convenient to live as near the sea as possible, yet such encroachment brings hazards, particularly to the unwary. The seaside has many attractions. Not only is the sea an important resource — for food, power, minerals and recreation — but also an agency for communication and defence and a provider of flat land for agriculture. For all combinations of these reasons many states are marinocentric. Capital cities, unless sited by political whim, are invariably coastal in location. In the nineteenth century, with the advent of cheap mass transport, it became fashionable to take holidays by the sea. Resorts developed in Britain, France and along the eastern US seaboard. This pattern was later repeated in Spain, Greece and Mexico and is now devouring the coastlines of previously ‘exotic’ countries like Gambia, Sri Lanka and Bali (Indonesia). Such a taste for coast dwelling has spilled over into retirement homes, industrial relocation and all that goes with it. The population of Florida, America’s most ‘coastal’ state, has been increasing at the rate of 4 per cent per year for over twenty years (Graff and Wiseman, 1978). Almost all these people reside near the coast — only a tiny fraction have any comprehension of the risk. Similar, although admittedly not so spectacular trends, may be discerned in almost every developed country. In less developed nations coastal cities are growing spectacularly; prime examples are Sao Paulo in northeast Brazil, which is expected to have over ten million inhabitants, mostly poor, by 1990, and Kowloon in Hong Kong.

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