Coastal Zone Management of West Bengal – A Review

Sea level rise due to global warming leading to changing coastal environmental scenarios is a very recent phenomenon. As a result, coastal climate like relative humidity, river flow rates and run off, fertility of coastal soils, distribution of coastal biomes, characters of tidal flow regime and wave actions, pattern of sedimentation and sedimentary environment, nutrient upwelling and downwelling, chemical parameters of coastal waters, frequency of cyclonic storms, storm surges and coastal inundation thereon have been changing with time. Monitoring integrated coastal zone management including proper steps of coastal protection applying useful and befitted coastal engineering structures, and the proper implementation of the roles of exclusive economic zone along with the coastal zone regulations may mitigate such problems.