The Beaches Are Moving: The Drowning of America's Shoreline

Our beaches are eroding, sinking, washing out right under our houses, hotels, bridges; vacation dreamlands become nightmare scenes of futile revetments, fills, groins, what have you-all thrown up in a frantic defense against the natural system. The romantic desire to live on the seashore is in doome...

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Hauptverfasser: Kaufman, Wallace (VerfasserIn), Pilkey, Orrin H. 1934- (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Neal, William J. (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham Duke University Press 1983
Schriftenreihe:Living with the Shore
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Online-Zugang:DE-1043
DE-1046
DE-858
DE-859
DE-860
DE-473
DE-739
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Zusammenfassung:Our beaches are eroding, sinking, washing out right under our houses, hotels, bridges; vacation dreamlands become nightmare scenes of futile revetments, fills, groins, what have you-all thrown up in a frantic defense against the natural system. The romantic desire to live on the seashore is in doomed conflict with an age-old pattern of beach migration. Yet it need not be so. Conservationist Wallace Kaufman teams up with marine geologist Orrin H. Pilkey Jr., in an evaluation of America's beaches from coast to coast, giving sound advice on how to judge a safe beach development from a dangerous one and how to live at the shore sensibly and safely
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (352 pages)
ISBN:0822382946
9780822382942
DOI:10.1515/9780822382942

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