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There are tow kinds of sea levels: eustatic sea level and relative sea level. The former is global or general sea level; its recent rise is chiefly due to global warming and the resulting melting of glaciers. On the contrary, the relative sea level change at specific site is the sum of the eustatic sea level rise plus local land-level change. Evidently, the latter is much more important for the human-kind and hence has greater socioeconomic significance.
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Mei-e, R. (1994). Relative Sea Level Changes in China Over the Last Eighty Years. In: Di, Z., Yuan-Bo, L., Cheng-Kui, Z. (eds) Oceanology of China Seas. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0862-1_42
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