LEADER 04054nam 22005775 450 001 996556962303316 005 20231201011428.0 010 $a1-4780-9296-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781478092964 035 $a(CKB)28467206500041 035 $a(DE-B1597)671948 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781478092964 035 $a(ScCtBLL)c1212497-d5c3-456e-9f99-266da25d48aa 035 $a(EXLCZ)9928467206500041 100 $a20231201h20222022 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aVanishing Sands $eLosing Beaches to Mining /$fNorma J. Longo, Hannah L. Hayes, Keith C. Pilkey, Nelson G. Rangel-Buitrago, Orrin H. Pilkey, William J. Neal 210 1$aDurham : $cDuke University Press, $d[2022] 210 4$dİ2022 215 $a1 online resource (248 p.) 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tPREFACE -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $t1 Who?s Mining the Shore? -- $t2 Sand: Earth?s Most Remarkable Mineral Resource -- $t3 Singapore Sand Bandits: Sitting on Asia?s Sandpile -- $t4 The Sands of Crime: Mafia, Sand Robbers, and Law Benders -- $t5 Sand Rivers to the Beach: Choked Flow -- $t6 Barbuda and Other Islands: Lessons from the Caribbean -- $t7 A Summoner?s Thirteen Tales: South America?s Coastal Sand Mining -- $t8 A Different Kind of Sand Mining: Legal but Destructive -- $t9 Africa Sands: Desert Abundance ? Coastal Dearth -- $t10 Beach Mining: Truths and Solutions -- $tAPPENDIX A SAND MINING VIOLENT EVENTS -- $tAPPENDIX B SAND RIGHTS: BRINGING BACK REASON -- $tREFERENCES -- $tCONTRIBUTORS -- $tINDEX 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aBeaches$xEnvironmental aspects 606 $aCoasts$xEnvironmental aspects 606 $aMines and mineral resources$xEnvironmental aspects 606 $aSand and gravel mines and mining$xEnvironmental aspects 606 $aSea level$xEnvironmental aspects 606 $aSeashore ecology 606 $aNATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Coastal Regions & Shorelines$2bisacsh 615 0$aBeaches$xEnvironmental aspects. 615 0$aCoasts$xEnvironmental aspects. 615 0$aMines and mineral resources$xEnvironmental aspects. 615 0$aSand and gravel mines and mining$xEnvironmental aspects. 615 0$aSea level$xEnvironmental aspects. 615 0$aSeashore ecology. 615 7$aNATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Coastal Regions & Shorelines. 700 $aPilkey$b Orrin H., $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01453594 702 $aHayes$b Hannah L., $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 702 $aLongo$b Norma J., $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 702 $aNeal$b William J., $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 702 $aPilkey$b Keith C., $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996556962303316 996 $aVanishing Sands$93656339 997 $aUNISA