LEADER 04204nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910454000703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-96599-5 010 $a9786611965990 010 $a0-226-53404-9 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226534046 035 $a(CKB)1000000000577942 035 $a(EBL)408210 035 $a(OCoLC)567944133 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000124096 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11135456 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000124096 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10015323 035 $a(PQKB)11627342 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC408210 035 $a(DE-B1597)524507 035 $a(OCoLC)309368507 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226534046 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL408210 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10266046 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL196599 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000577942 100 $a20070827d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCoast lines$b[electronic resource] $ehow mapmakers frame the world and chart environmental change /$fMark Monmonier 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (244 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-53403-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 193-214) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tPREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tONE. DEPICTION AND MEASUREMENT -- $tTWO. DEFINITIONS AND DELINEATIONS -- $tTHREE. NEW WORLDS AND FICTITIOUS ISLANDS -- $tFOUR. TRIANGLES AND TOPOGRAPHY -- $tFIVE. OVERHEAD IMAGING -- $tSIX. ELECTRONIC CHARTS AND PRECISE POSITIONING -- $tSEVEN. GLOBAL SHORELINES -- $tEIGHT. BASELINES AND OFFSHORE BORDERS -- $tNINE. CALIBRATING CATASTROPHE -- $tTEN. RISING SEAS, ERODINGSURGE -- $tELEVEN. CLOSE-UPS AND COMPLEXITY -- $tTWELVE. EPILOGUE -- $tNOTES -- $tBIBLIOGRAPHY -- $tINDEX 330 $aIn the next century, sea levels are predicted to rise at unprecedented rates, causing flooding around the world, from the islands of Malaysia and the canals of Venice to the coasts of Florida and California. These rising water levels pose serious challenges to all aspects of coastal existence-chiefly economic, residential, and environmental-as well as to the cartographic definition and mapping of coasts. It is this facet of coastal life that Mark Monmonier tackles in Coast Lines. Setting sail on a journey across shifting landscapes, cartographic technology, and climate change, Monmonier reveals that coastlines are as much a set of ideas, assumptions, and societal beliefs as they are solid black lines on maps. Whether for sailing charts or property maps, Monmonier shows, coastlines challenge mapmakers to capture on paper a highly irregular land-water boundary perturbed by tides and storms and complicated by rocks, wrecks, and shoals. Coast Lines is peppered with captivating anecdotes about the frustrating effort to expunge fictitious islands from nautical charts, the tricky measurement of a coastline's length, and the contentious notions of beachfront property and public access. Combing maritime history and the history of technology, Coast Lines charts the historical progression from offshore sketches to satellite images and explores the societal impact of coastal cartography on everything from global warming to homeland security. Returning to the form of his celebrated Air Apparent, Monmonier ably renders the topic of coastal cartography accessible to both general readers and historians of science, technology, and maritime studies. In the post-Katrina era, when the map of entire regions can be redrawn by a single natural event, the issues he raises are more important than ever. 606 $aCoastal mapping 606 $aEnvironmental monitoring 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCoastal mapping. 615 0$aEnvironmental monitoring. 676 $a912/.1946 686 $aRB 10223$2rvk 700 $aMonmonier$b Mark S$0276408 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454000703321 996 $aCoast lines$92060369 997 $aUNINA