LEADER 03755oam 2200661 450 001 996571861203316 005 20231026162725.0 010 $a1-4780-2343-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781478023432 035 $a(CKB)5590000000918503 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC29920099 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL29920099 035 $a(OCoLC)1341286875 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_102874 035 $a(DE-B1597)640988 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781478023432 035 $a1341286875 035 $a(BiblioVault)org.bibliovault.9781478023432 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000918503 100 $a20220817d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aVanishing sands $elosing beaches to mining /$fOrrin H. Pilkey, Norma J. Longo, William J. Neal, Nelson G. Rangel-Buitrago, Keith C. Pilkey, and Hannah L. Hayes 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aDurham :$cDuke University Press,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (265 pages) 311 $a1-4780-1879-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aWho's Mining the Shore? -- Sand: Earth's Most Remarkable Mineral Resource -- Singapore Sand Bandits: Sitting on Asia's Sandpile -- The Sands of Crime: Mafia, Sand Robbers, and Law Benders -- Sand Rivers to the Beach: Choked Flow -- Barbuda and Other Islands: Lessons from the Caribbean -- A Summoner's Thirteen Tales: South America's Coastal Sand Mining -- A Different Kind of Sand Mining: Legal but Destructive -- Africa Sands: Desert Abundance-Coastal Dearth -- Beach Mining: Truths and Solutions. 330 $a"In a time of accelerating sea level rise and increasingly intensifying storms, the world's sandy beaches and dunes have never been more crucial to protecting coastal environments. Yet, in order to meet the demands of large-scale construction projects, sand mining is stripping beaches and dunes, destroying environments, and exploiting labor in the process. The authors of Vanishing Sands track the devastating impact of legal and illegal sand mining over the past twenty years, ranging from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean to South America and the eastern United States. They show how sand mining has reached crisis levels: beach, dune, and river ecosystems are in danger of being lost forever, while organized crime groups use deadly force to protect their illegal mining operations. Calling for immediate and widespread resistance to sand mining, the authors demonstrate that its cessation is paramount for saving beaches, dunes, and associated environments, plus lives and tourism economies everywhere."--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aSand and gravel mines and mining$xEnvironmental aspects 606 $aCoasts$xEnvironmental aspects 606 $aSea level$xEnvironmental aspects 606 $aBeaches$xEnvironmental aspects 606 $aSeashore ecology 606 $aMines and mineral resources$xEnvironmental aspects 615 0$aSand and gravel mines and mining$xEnvironmental aspects. 615 0$aCoasts$xEnvironmental aspects. 615 0$aSea level$xEnvironmental aspects. 615 0$aBeaches$xEnvironmental aspects. 615 0$aSeashore ecology. 615 0$aMines and mineral resources$xEnvironmental aspects. 676 $a577.69/9 700 $aPilkey$b Orrin H.$f1934-$01099586 702 $aLongo$b Norma J.$f1943- 702 $aNeal$b William J. 702 $aRangel-Buitrago$b Nelson 702 $aPilkey$b Keith C.$f1965- 702 $aHayes$b Hannah L. 801 0$bNcD 801 1$bNcD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996571861203316 996 $aVanishing sands$93570018 997 $aUNISA