1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996556962303316

Autore

Pilkey Orrin H.

Titolo

Vanishing Sands : Losing Beaches to Mining / / Norma J. Longo, Hannah L. Hayes, Keith C. Pilkey, Nelson G. Rangel-Buitrago, Orrin H. Pilkey, William J. Neal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

1-4780-9296-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Soggetti

Beaches - Environmental aspects

Coasts - Environmental aspects

Mines and mineral resources - Environmental aspects

Sand and gravel mines and mining - Environmental aspects

Sea level - Environmental aspects

Seashore ecology

NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Coastal Regions & Shorelines

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 Who’s Mining the Shore? -- 2 Sand: Earth’s Most Remarkable Mineral Resource -- 3 Singapore Sand Bandits: Sitting on Asia’s Sandpile -- 4 The Sands of Crime: Mafia, Sand Robbers, and Law Benders -- 5 Sand Rivers to the Beach: Choked Flow -- 6 Barbuda and Other Islands: Lessons from the Caribbean -- 7 A Summoner’s Thirteen Tales: South America’s Coastal Sand Mining -- 8 A Different Kind of Sand Mining: Legal but Destructive -- 9 Africa Sands: Desert Abundance — Coastal Dearth -- 10 Beach Mining: Truths and Solutions -- APPENDIX A SAND MINING VIOLENT EVENTS -- APPENDIX B SAND RIGHTS: BRINGING BACK REASON -- REFERENCES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

In a time of accelerating sea level rise and increasingly intensifying storms, the world’s sandy beaches and dunes have never been more crucial to protecting coastal environments. Yet, in order to meet the demands of large-scale construction projects, sand mining is stripping



beaches and dunes, destroying environments, and exploiting labor in the process. The authors of Vanishing Sands track the devastating impact of legal and illegal sand mining over the past twenty years, ranging from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean to South America and the eastern United States. They show how sand mining has reached crisis levels: beach, dune, and river ecosystems are in danger of being lost forever, while organized crime groups use deadly force to protect their illegal mining operations. Calling for immediate and widespread resistance to sand mining, the authors demonstrate that its cessation is paramount for saving not only beaches, dunes, and associated environments but also lives and tourism economies everywhere.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISANNIORAV0192343

Autore

Rogger, Hans

Titolo

La Russia pre-rivoluzionaria : 1881-1917 / Hans Rogger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bologna, : Il mulino, \1992!

Titolo uniforme

Russia in the age of modernisation and revolution. -

ISBN

8815034331

Descrizione fisica

491 p. ; 22 cm

Collana

Le vie della civiltà

Classificazione

SU/04.0

Disciplina

947

947.08

947.083

947.084

Soggetti

Russia - Storia

Russia - 1881-1917

Collocazione

POZZO LIB.ECON MON                6478

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Trad. di Melania Mascarino.