Urbanization, Industrialization and Socio-economic Phenomenon Underpinning Beach and Water Body Biodiversity Disruption

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Research Paper: Urbanization, industrialization and socio-economic Phenomenon Underpinning Beach and Water Body Biodiversity Disruption
Introduction
Urbanization is one of the unprecedented human phenomena sweeping across multiple facets of humanity. Beach culture has undergone tremendous growth and transformational primarily due to expanding urbanization. Urbanization has a profound impact on beach biodiversity. Beach biodiversity is experiencing a rapid decline as a result of growing urbanization. This paper argues that urbanization is increasingly detrimental to beach biodiversity, culture, and the overall ecosystem surrounding the beaches and coastal lines. Beach culture is becoming a necessary urban and suburban experience. While providing a place to relax and experience seamless leisure activities, different aspects of urbanization involving the economy, tourism, and hospitality, get deeply entrenched into beach ecology. Such complex interaction culminates in beach ecological degradation featuring increased diminution of beach biodiversity. Pollution of coastal environments such as beaches, rivers, and coastal lines may diminish the overall optimization of such resources for economic, aesthetics, recreation, and survival purposes. Pollution and general ecological contamination degrade and destroy unique beach habitats, featuring an ideal biodiversity balance supporting animals and plant life. A polluted beach and water body reflects a broader public health risk, which poses a threat to property values, inhibits economic growth, widens the risk of shoreline disasters, and disrupts overall biodiversity.
Status of U.S Beaches and Bays
Beaches, rivers, and bays in the U.S are raising serious concerns due to general populations and contamination. According to a CNN news outlet, about 60% of 4,523 beaches tested across the U. S showed unsafe water pollution levels. The study shows increased levels of bacterial levels beyond standards, which implies increased contamination. For instance, Inner Cabrillo Beach and Bethany Beach in Delaware's Sussex were highly contaminated. In the U. S sewage overflow, malfunctioning septic systems, urban runoffs, and livestock manure could primarily contribute to beach pollution. Other reports showed that 58% of 2,620 beaches analyzed contain fecal bacteria levels exceeding the “beach action value” and 605 sites classified as having unsafe water, especially beaches and water bodies surrounding Illinois, Louisiana, and Mississippi, were found to have highly contaminated water (Guardian Report, np,2019).
 Sewage runoff from storms, inappropriate dumping, and increased infrastructural developments along coastal ecological units all culminate in widespread contamination in water bodies and beach areas. The industrial units and factory farms, suboptimal sewer systems, and climate change could aggravate overall pollution and contamination. Swimming on U.S beaches could create transient joy but may cause long-term health risks and overall danger to biodiversity.
Urbanization, industrialization globalization and Socio-economic and Political Disparities Contribution to Biodiversity Imbalance
Most beaches worldwide are undergoing radical transformations due to spectra of urbanization developments geared towards beach economy, leisure, and hospitality. More often, the in-depth notion of the beach is not apparent. Most people would consider “a beach is a beach” and perceive it as a flat and primarily featureless expanse of sand against blue-green water and blue skies. Thus, to most people, the idea of the beach is highly replicable and reproducible. Many people would rarely question the ecological and biodiversity implication attributed to a broader aggregate of human phenomena such as urbanization. The truth regarding beaches may not be ecologically visible but appear subtle but impactful.
Beneath the visible surface of the sand lies extensive biodiversity, including crabs, clams, and beach hoppers. However, such biodiversity is on a rapid decline. The reduced biodiversity is linked to expanding beach cultures marked by an ever-rising wave of urbanization to accommodate the economy and meet beachgoers' needs. The impact of urbanization on ecological beach units is unquantifiable. The emerging urban structures such as buildings and related infrastructural developments are quickly destroying the native ecological features in the beaches. The emerging cities along the coast are increasingly flattening the dunes, destroying native vegetation, and reconfiguring the sand to accommodate packing lots and entertainment joints.
Urbanization causes a ripple effect across beaches as ecological systems. The unprecedented urbanization results could underpin rising erosion, increasing sea levels, and deranged healthcare studies surrounding beaches, oceans, and coastal environmental units. Trade is an extensive component of urbanization. Global invasions of marine species often follow human migration pathways and predominantly trading routes. Over the years, a wave of exploration, immigration, and commerce in the U. S has created an epicenter of invasive specifies (Bologna, np). The growth of urban areas, accompanied by trading activities, places high pressure on natural coastal natural resources. Urbanization alongside trade has a direct impact on biodiversity and the state of the coastal environment. The location of coastal urbanization inherently translates to socio-economic vulnerability. Coastal cities of the WIO region are desirable places to live and work which results in ongoing and increasing urbanization. The populations of the urban areas of the region are also vulnerable to natural disasters associated with this location in the coastal zone.
Urbanization exists alongside globalization. Both of these contribute to ballooning population figures living around coastal and beach ecological units. Urbanization and globalization reflect the manifestations of the 21st century. Urbanization culminates in a confluence of people, increasing economic activity and expanding infrastructural milestones. Urbanization as a phenomenon reflects demographic growth, economic boom, and increased pressures on land use. Urbanization remains complex, highly contextualized, and heterogeneous human happening, well understood under socio-economic and political changes at supra and microsystems in various ecological units. It is highly intricate patterns where specific beach localities such as Big Sur, Hamptons, Hilton Head, and Raritan River Beaches are positively influenced by factors that are not available within the direct confines of these places.
The rising localization of global and urbanization effect in nucleated ecological units such as beaches and coastal lines may partly arise from socio-economic inequities and disparities. Economic factors are spatially and disproportionately distributed, allowing economic development, employment opportunities, and overall urbanization to occur in nucleated areas. Such disparities culminate in migration towards particular places such as beaches where opportunities are perceived to be more. The economic activities around beaches constitute an epicenter of socio-economic inequality by increasing the overall desirability to live near beaches, coastlines, and oceans. These nucleated ecological units are bound to be focal points for production, ex...