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 |
Autore | Pilkey Orrin H. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Durham : , : Duke University Press, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
Soggetto topico |
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 |
ISBN | 1-4780-9296-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996556962303316 |
Pilkey Orrin H. | ||
Durham : , : Duke University Press, , [2022] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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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 |
Autore | Pilkey Orrin H. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Durham : , : Duke University Press, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
Soggetto topico |
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 |
ISBN | 1-4780-9296-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910831807303321 |
Pilkey Orrin H. | ||
Durham : , : Duke University Press, , [2022] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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