Sweet Sara Crewe has everything a little girl could want: A loving family, lots of friends and a closet full of frilly dresses, but when life takes a turn and Sara goes from riches to rags, will she realize that her true worth lies not in what she has, but what's in her heart?

Thirty-two proceedings papers addressing international concerns over the poor environmental quality of coastal regions due to pollution and other problems, presenting sampling and rehabilitation techniques through reliable modeling and analysis tools. The contributors discuss topics in pollution management and decision analysis, hazard mitigation and risk analysis, drift and evolution in coastal regions and beaches, oil slicks and spills, pollutant...