Natural and man-induced changes in the coastal environment in International symposium on coastal evolution in the Holocene.
The distinction between natural and man-induced changes in the coastal environment is to a considerable extent indeterminable. The PICG 200 should emphasize the mapping of distribution of advancing, stable and receding coastlines. One aspect which
invites joint consideration is the nature and scale of changes that will occur, both in coastline retreat and sea-level rise, if the modern global warming continues to such an extent that a major marine transgression occurs.
Man's activities have led to changes in sea level locally, in response to construction works and subterranean extractive projects. Utilisation of river waters and construction of coastal dams have clearly influenced large scale changes