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A synthesis : what is the future for coasts, estuaries, deltas and other transitional habitats in 2050 and beyond? / Michael Elliott, John W. Day, Ramesh Ramachandran, Eric Wolanski -- Estuaries. An assessment of saltwater intrusion in the Changjiang (Yangtze) River estuary, China / Maotian Li, Zhongyuan Chen -- Río de la Plata : a neotropical estuarine system / Javier García-Alonso, Diego Lercari, Omar Defeo -- Estuaries and coastal zones in the northern Persian Gulf (Iran) / Moslem Sharifinia, Moslem Daliri, Ehsan Kamrani -- Protecting water quality in urban estuaries : Australian case studies / Ryan J.K. Dunn, Nathan J. Waltham, Jianyin Huang, Peter R. Teasdale, Brian A. King -- Management of megafauna in estuaries and coastal waters : Moreton Bay as a case study / Janet M. Lanyon -- Peel-Harvey estuary, Western Australia / F.J. Valesini, C.S. Hallett, M.R. Hipsey, K.L. Kilminster, P. Huang, K. Hennig -- Arctic deltas and estuaries : a Canadian perspective / Donald L. Forbes -- Delta winners and losers in the anthropocene / John W. Day, Ramesh Ramachandran, Liviu Giosan, James Syvitski, G. Paul Kemp -- Mississippi delta restoration and protection : shifting baselines, diminishing resilience, and growing nonsustainability / John W. Day, Craig Colten, G. Paul Kemp -- Integrated management of the Ganges Delta, India / Ramesh Ramachandran, Ahana Lakshmi, Swati Mohan Sappal, Bonthu S.R. Mary Divya Suganya, D. Ganguly, R.S. Robin, R. Purvaja -- The Indus Delta : catchment, river, coast, and people / Samina Kidwai, Waqar Ahmed, Syed Mohsin Tabrez, Jing Zhang, Liviu Giosan, Peter Clift, Asif Inam -- A brief overview of ecological degradation of the Nile Delta : what we can learn / Zhongyuan Chen -- Status and sustainability of Mediterranean deltas : the case of the Ebro, Rhône, and Po deltas and Venice lagoon / John W. Day, Carles Ibáñez, Didier Pont, Francesco Scarton -- Wetlands, lagoons and catchments. Coastal lagoons : environmental variability, ecosystem complexity, and goods and services uniformity / Angel Pérez-Ruzafa, Isabel M. Pérez-Ruzafa, Alice Newton, Concepción Marcos -- The Everglades : at the forefront of transition / Fred H. Sklar, John E. Meeder, Tiffany G. Troxler, Tom Dreschel, Steve E. Davis, Pablo L. Ruiz -- Population growth, nutrient enrichment, and science-based policy in the Chesapeake Bay watershed / Christopher F. D'Elia, Morris Bidjerano, Timothy B. Wheeler -- The Senegal and Pangani rivers : examples of over-used river systems within water-stressed environments in Africa / Awa Niang, Peter Scheren, Salif Diop, Coura Kane, Cheikh Tidiane Koulibaly -- Damming the Mekong : impacts in Vietnam and solutions / Nguyen Huu Nhan, Nguyen Ba Cao -- Enclosed, semi-enclosed, and open coasts. Baltic Sea : a recovering future from decades of eutrophication / Anna-Stiina Heiskanen, Erik Bonsdorff, Marko Joas -- The Black Sea : the past, present, and future status / Abdulaziz Güneroğlu, Osman Samsun, Muzaffer Feyzioğlu, Mustafa Dihkan -- Ecosystem functioning and sustainable management in coastal systems with high freshwater imput in the southern Gulf of Mexico and Yucatan Peninsula / Jorge A. Herrera-Silveira, Ana L. Lara-Domínguez, John W. Day, Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia, Sara Morales Ojeda, Claudia Teutli Hernández, G. Paul Kemp -- Restoration of estuaries. Restoration of estuaries and bays in Japan : what's been done so far, and future perspectives / Osamu Matsuda, Tetsuo Yanagi -- Challenges of restoring polluted industrialized muddy nw European estuaries / R. Kirby -- Can bivalve habitat restoration improve degraded estuaries? / Ian Michael McLeod, Philine S.E. zu Ermgassen, Chris L. Gillies, Boze Hancock, Austin Humphries -- Coral reefs. Successful management of coral reef-watershed networks / Robert H. Richmond, Yimnang Golbuu, Austin J. Shelton III -- Challenges and opportunities in the management of coral islands of Lakshadweep, India / R. Purvaja, S. Yogeswari, T. Debasis, G. Hariharan, R. Raghuraman, R. Muruganadam, Ramesh Ramachandran -- The future of the Great Barrier Reef : the water quality imperative / J. Brodie, A. Grech, B. Pressey, J. Day, A.P. Dale, T. Morrison, A. Wenger -- Over-arching topics. Estuarine ecohydrology modeling : what works and with what limits? / Eric Wolanski -- Hypersalinity : global distribution, causes, and present and future effects on the biota of estuaries and lagoons / James R. Tweedley, Sabine R. Dittmann, Alan K. Whitfield, Kim Withers, Steeg D. Hoeksema, Ian C. Potter -- Alien species invasion : case study of the Black Sea / Nickolai Shalovenkov - Coastal fisheries : the past, present, and possible futures / Maria-Lourdes D. Palomares, Daniel Pauly -- Temperate estuaries : their ecology under future environmental changes / J.-P. Ducrotoy, Michael Elliott, N.D. Cutts, A. Franco, S. Little, K. Mazik, M. Wilkinson -- Plastic pollution in the coastal environment : current challenges and future solutions / K. Critchell, A. Bauer-Civiello, C. Benham, K. Berry, L. Eagle, M. Hamann, K. Hussey, T. Ridgway -- Changing hydrology : a UK perspective / Peter E. Robins, Matt J. Lewis -- Management of change. Global change impacts on the future of coastal systems : perverse interactions among climate change, ecosystem degradation, energy scarcity, and population / John W. Day, John M. Rybczyk -- Human-nature relations in flux : two decades of research in coastal and ocean management / Berhnard Glaeser -- Megacities and the coast : global context and scope for transformation / Sophie Blackburn, Mark Pelling, Cesar Marques -- Arctic coastal systems : evaluating the DAPSI(W)R(M) framework / Amy Lauren Lovecraft, Chanda L. 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