Short Course (~24 contact hours)

COASTAL ENVIRONMENT, RESOURCES AND INTEGRATED COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT (ICZM)

COURSE OUTLINE

DAY 1 (Building on previous courses... with some twist)

INTRODUCTION

1. Generalities

PLANET EARTH

2. Energy, processes and formation of oceans and continents

THE COASTAL ZONE

3. Importance and problems

4. Definition

5. Geological origin

6. Few basic processes (normal and extreme events)

7. Major costal types (environments)

HAZARDS AND RESOURCES

8. Natural and induced hazards

9. Non-renewable and renewable resources

HUMAN ACTIVITIES

10. Inland

11. Along the shoreline

DAY 2 (International experiences)

CASE HISTORIES

12. Trailing-edge and marginal-sea coasts of North America, from the arctic to the tropics

THE INTEGRATED COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT (ICZM)

13. Retreat, accommodation or protection

DAY 3 (Applications to Hainan)

HAINAN ISLAND

14. Present settings, geological evolution

15. Student exercise on "development analysis" for various areas or subject matter

16. Student presentations and discussion

DAY 4

17. Field trip