ECSA Handbooks & Meetings Outputs

ECSA Handbooks

ECSA occasionally publishes handbooks on particular topics. For further information please click on the links below.

Estuarine and Coastal Hydrography and Sediment Transport

EDITORS:R. J. Uncles, Plymouth Marine Laboratory; S. B. Mitchell, University of Portsmouth

http://cambridge.org/ECHST

Marine Protected Areas (Humphreys and Clark Eds, Elsevier publ, 2019)

https://www.elsevier.com/books/marine-protected-areas/humphreys/978-0-08-102698-4

Challenges in Coastal and Estuarine Science (Humphreys and Little Eds, Pelagic publ, 2022)

https://pelagicpublishing.com/products/challenges-in-estuarine-and-coastal-science

The ECSA Book Series (Editors Mike Elliott and Steve Mitchell)

Pharmaceuticals in Marine and Coastal Environments (Duran-Alvarez and Jimenez-Cisneros, 2021)

https://www.elsevier.com/books/pharmaceuticals-in-marine-and-coastal-environments/duran-alvarez/978-0-08-102971-8

Carbon Mineralization in Coastal Wetlands (Ouyand, Li, Lai and Marchand Eds, 2022)

https://www.elsevier.com/books/carbon-mineralization-in-coastal-wetlands/ouyang/978-0-12-819220-7

Environmental Consequences and Management of Coastal Industries (Elliott and Wither Eds, 2024)

https://www.elsevier.com/books/environmental-consequences-and-management-of-coastal-industries/elliott/978-0-443-13752-5

Publications resulting from ECSA meetings and conferences are also listed.

Marine Protected Areas - Science, Policy and Management

by John Humphreys, Portsmouth Institute of Marine Sciences and Robert W.E.Clark of the Southern Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority

The book follows on from the ECSA local meeting held at Poole, Dorset in May 2019, and is published by Elsevier.

In the face of unprecedented pressure on marine ecosystems, Marine Protected Areas are seen as a cornerstone strategy for conservation. While few argue in principle about their legitimacy, they remain contentious in policy terms and are challenging to manage. In addition to capturing a range of successes and solutions from across the world, this book lays bare ubiquitous difficulties of implementation and provides critical analyses ranging from the mis-application of science to international policy deficits and the causes of local challenges.

Read further details here:

Marine Protected Areas book description 

Coastal Zone Topics: Process, Ecology & Management

Coastal Zone Topics: Process, Ecology & Management is an occasional series published by ECSA (ISSN 1353-6168). It was designed to improve the flow of information on coastal resources, processes and management needed by those developing and implementing initiatives in coastal zone management. It published volumes based on papers presented at ECSA’s local meetings, other workshop and symposium volumes and volumes providing reviews of particular topics relevant to the UK coastline and its management. Coverage of a volume usually included both scientific and management aspects covering both marine and terrestrial parts of the zone. Production of each volume was managed by an Editorial Panel and all papers were subjected to peer review.

Some examples are given below:

Volume 1. The Changing Coastline (Edited by N.V. Jones)
A volume based on the 20^th ECSA Symposium in Hull, UK, September 1990. Published jointly by ECSA and JNCC in 1995.
jncc-coastal-zone-topics-1.pdf

Volume 3. The estuaries of Central Scotland (Edited by D.S. McLusky)
A volume based on the ECSA local meeting held in Edinburgh, UK in April 1995. Published jointly by ECSA and JNCC in 1997.
ECSA Coastal Zone Topics, Volume 3 (1997)

Volume 4. The Humber Estuary and adjoining Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Coasts (Edited by N.V. Jones & M. Elliott). 
A volume based on the ECSA local meeting held in Hull, UK in April 1996. Published by ECSA in 2000.
  ECSA Coastal Zone Topics, Volume 4 (2000)