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Chapter 7 

 SUMMARY 



The estuarine zone is an ecosystem. That is, it is an environment 

 of land, water, and air inhabited by plants and animals that have 

 specific relationships to each other. This particular ecosystem 

 is the interface between land and ocean, and one of its key compo- 

 ents is human society. 



The social and economic environment that forms human society must 

 be regulated by man-made laws intended to provide justice to each 

 individual and part of the socioeconomic environment. The biological 



