Against the tide: the battle for America's beaches

"Against the Tide offers a passionate yet evenhanded account of the crisis facing America's beaches - and what we must do to protect them." "With harrowing accounts of natural disasters, lucid explanations of the physics of the beach and coastal ecology, reports of unwise constru...

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1. Verfasser: Dean, Cornelia (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York [u.a.] Columbia Univ. Press 1999
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Zusammenfassung:"Against the Tide offers a passionate yet evenhanded account of the crisis facing America's beaches - and what we must do to protect them." "With harrowing accounts of natural disasters, lucid explanations of the physics of the beach and coastal ecology, reports of unwise construction, and a clear-eyed elucidation of public policy and conservation issues, this book illustrates in rich detail the conflicting interests, short-term responses, and long-term imperatives that will shape the future of the American coast."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:XIV, 279 S. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:0231084188

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