Review
Eric Wolanski has drawn on his own wide and high-quality research into coastal and reef systems and coupled this with an array of other research specialists in marine systems and biology, fisheries, land processes and management, to produce a signal book. A book that integrates, explains and, in places, tantalizes with descriptions of the dynamics underpinning the Reef. The strength is in the nice description of dynamic properties and the integration of these physics with biological and chemical processes. The text is clearly written and the scienticfic arguments are well developed, gaining great support from the CD ROM and the graphic illustration of processes – their links and the difficult question of scale. It is not a book of mathematical equations, but is a book of sound scholarship with fascinating products and visualisation – it’s about scientific product and implications, rather than the detailed mechanics and often cross-disciplinary obfuscation of such de (more…)