The application of satellite remote sensing to coastal management in Singapore
Article Abstract:
Analysis suggests that satellite remote sensing is a valid component of coastal zone management, using data obtained from its use in Singapore. Topics include water quality monitoring, oil spill detection, marine habitat mapping and ship-wake effects; it is recommended that satellite remote sensing applications be focused toward sustainable development of Singapore's resources.
Publication Name: Ambio
Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0044-7447
Year: 2001
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Editorial
Article Abstract:
An overview is presented on the role of population growth in worldwide energy consumption and sustainable development. With population figures projected to reach between 9.3 bil and 11 bil by the year 2050, a combination of energy consumption reduction and sustainable usage is advocated.
Publication Name: Ambio
Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0044-7447
Year: 2001
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Energy for the new millennium
Article Abstract:
The article examines planning for sustainable development, using energy resource management in Brazil as an example. Discussion focuses on technological leapfrogging, or the borrowing of technological knowledge and skills from industrial countries by developing countries.
Publication Name: Ambio
Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0044-7447
Year: 2001
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: The economic impact of sea-level rise on nonmarket lands in Singapore. Valuing coral reefs: a travel cost analysis of the Great Barrier Reef
- Abstracts: Scientific characterization and monitoring: its application to integrated coastal management in Malaysia. Effect of human development on bacteriological water quality in coastal watersheds
- Abstracts: Grain production and environmental management in China's fertilizer economy. Spatial and temporal hydrochemical changes in groundwater under the contaminating effects of fertilizers and wastewater
- Abstracts: Biological impacts of boating at Kawau Island, north-eastern New Zealand. part 2 Risk-based targeting of diffuse contaminant sources at variable spatial scales in a New Zealand high country catchment
- Abstracts: Understanding human impact on the Baltic ecosystem: changing views in recent decades. Value assessment of cultural landscape in AL(c)kas settlement, southwestern Saudi Arabia