Retreat from a rising sea : hard choices in an age of climate change / / Orrin H. Pilkey, Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, Keith C. Pilkey |
Autore | Pilkey Orrin H. <1934-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, [New York] : , : Columbia University Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (253 p.) |
Disciplina | 333.917 |
Soggetto topico |
Coast changes
Sea level Shore protection Global warming |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-231-54180-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Control + Alt + Retreat -- 2. The Overflowing Ocean -- 3. The Fate of Two Doomed Cities: Miami and New Orleans -- 4 New and Old Amsterdam: New York City and the Netherlands -- 5. Cities on the Brink -- 6. The Taxpayers and the Beach House -- 7. Coastal Calamities: How Geology Affects the Fate of the Shoreline -- 8. Drowning in Place: Infrastructure and Landmarks in the Age of Sea-Level Rise -- 9. The Cruelest Wave: Climate Refugees -- 10. Deny, Debate, and Delay -- 11. Ghosts of the Past, Promise of the Future -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465596803321 |
Pilkey Orrin H. <1934-> | ||
New York, [New York] : , : Columbia University Press, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Retreat from a rising sea : hard choices in an age of climate change / / Orrin H. Pilkey, Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, Keith C. Pilkey |
Autore | Pilkey Orrin H. <1934-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, [New York] : , : Columbia University Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (253 p.) |
Disciplina | 333.917 |
Soggetto topico |
Coast changes
Sea level Shore protection Global warming |
ISBN | 0-231-54180-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Control + Alt + Retreat -- 2. The Overflowing Ocean -- 3. The Fate of Two Doomed Cities: Miami and New Orleans -- 4 New and Old Amsterdam: New York City and the Netherlands -- 5. Cities on the Brink -- 6. The Taxpayers and the Beach House -- 7. Coastal Calamities: How Geology Affects the Fate of the Shoreline -- 8. Drowning in Place: Infrastructure and Landmarks in the Age of Sea-Level Rise -- 9. The Cruelest Wave: Climate Refugees -- 10. Deny, Debate, and Delay -- 11. Ghosts of the Past, Promise of the Future -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798109803321 |
Pilkey Orrin H. <1934-> | ||
New York, [New York] : , : Columbia University Press, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Retreat from a rising sea : hard choices in an age of climate change / / Orrin H. Pilkey, Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, Keith C. Pilkey |
Autore | Pilkey Orrin H. <1934-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, [New York] : , : Columbia University Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (253 p.) |
Disciplina | 333.917 |
Soggetto topico |
Coast changes
Sea level Shore protection Global warming |
ISBN | 0-231-54180-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Control + Alt + Retreat -- 2. The Overflowing Ocean -- 3. The Fate of Two Doomed Cities: Miami and New Orleans -- 4 New and Old Amsterdam: New York City and the Netherlands -- 5. Cities on the Brink -- 6. The Taxpayers and the Beach House -- 7. Coastal Calamities: How Geology Affects the Fate of the Shoreline -- 8. Drowning in Place: Infrastructure and Landmarks in the Age of Sea-Level Rise -- 9. The Cruelest Wave: Climate Refugees -- 10. Deny, Debate, and Delay -- 11. Ghosts of the Past, Promise of the Future -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809302103321 |
Pilkey Orrin H. <1934-> | ||
New York, [New York] : , : Columbia University Press, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The rising sea [[electronic resource] /] / Orrin H. Pilkey and Rob Young |
Autore | Pilkey Orrin H. <1934-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.34/93 |
Altri autori (Persone) | YoungRob <1963-> |
Soggetto topico |
Sea level
Coast changes |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-59726-643-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Living on the edge -- Why the sea is rising -- Predicting the unpredictable -- The 800-pound gorillas -- A sea of denial -- The living coasts -- People and the rising sea -- Ground zero : the Mississippi Delta -- Sounding retreat. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458041103321 |
Pilkey Orrin H. <1934-> | ||
Washington, D.C., : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The rising sea [[electronic resource] /] / Orrin H. Pilkey and Rob Young |
Autore | Pilkey Orrin H. <1934-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.34/93 |
Altri autori (Persone) | YoungRob <1963-> |
Soggetto topico |
Sea level
Coast changes |
ISBN | 1-59726-643-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Living on the edge -- Why the sea is rising -- Predicting the unpredictable -- The 800-pound gorillas -- A sea of denial -- The living coasts -- People and the rising sea -- Ground zero : the Mississippi Delta -- Sounding retreat. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781859003321 |
Pilkey Orrin H. <1934-> | ||
Washington, D.C., : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The rising sea [[electronic resource] /] / Orrin H. Pilkey and Rob Young |
Autore | Pilkey Orrin H. <1934-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.34/93 |
Altri autori (Persone) | YoungRob <1963-> |
Soggetto topico |
Sea level
Coast changes |
ISBN | 1-59726-643-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Living on the edge -- Why the sea is rising -- Predicting the unpredictable -- The 800-pound gorillas -- A sea of denial -- The living coasts -- People and the rising sea -- Ground zero : the Mississippi Delta -- Sounding retreat. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811347403321 |
Pilkey Orrin H. <1934-> | ||
Washington, D.C., : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Vanishing sands : losing beaches to mining / / Orrin H. Pilkey, Norma J. Longo, William J. Neal, Nelson G. Rangel-Buitrago, Keith C. Pilkey, and Hannah L. Hayes |
Autore | Pilkey Orrin H. <1934-> |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (265 pages) |
Disciplina | 577.69/9 |
Soggetto topico |
Sand and gravel mines and mining - Environmental aspects
Coasts - Environmental aspects Sea level - Environmental aspects Beaches - Environmental aspects Seashore ecology Mines and mineral resources - Environmental aspects |
ISBN | 1-4780-2343-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Who'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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910747001203321 |
Pilkey Orrin H. <1934-> | ||
Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2022 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Vanishing sands : losing beaches to mining / / Orrin H. Pilkey, Norma J. Longo, William J. Neal, Nelson G. Rangel-Buitrago, Keith C. Pilkey, and Hannah L. Hayes |
Autore | Pilkey Orrin H. <1934-> |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (265 pages) |
Disciplina | 577.69/9 |
Soggetto topico |
Sand and gravel mines and mining - Environmental aspects
Coasts - Environmental aspects Sea level - Environmental aspects Beaches - Environmental aspects Seashore ecology Mines and mineral resources - Environmental aspects |
ISBN | 1-4780-2343-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Who'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. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996571861203316 |
Pilkey Orrin H. <1934-> | ||
Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2022 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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The world's beaches [[electronic resource] /] / Orrin H. Pilkey ... [et al.] |
Autore | Pilkey Orrin H. <1934-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (301 p.) |
Disciplina | 551.45/7 |
Soggetto topico |
Beaches
Seashore Coasts Coast changes |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-27801-4
9786613278012 0-520-94894-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. The global character of beaches -- pt. 2. How to read a beach -- pt. 3. The global threat to beaches. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456711803321 |
Pilkey Orrin H. <1934-> | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The world's beaches [[electronic resource] /] / Orrin H. Pilkey ... [et al.] |
Autore | Pilkey Orrin H. <1934-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (301 p.) |
Disciplina | 551.45/7 |
Soggetto topico |
Beaches
Seashore Coasts Coast changes |
Soggetto non controllato |
arctic beaches
bars beach ecosystems beach environments beach guides beach variety beaches berms blisters coastal engineering color photographs cusps dunes earth sciences global beaches guidebook illustrated maps natural sciences natural variety nonfiction oceans oil spills pollution ripples rising sea levels scientists shell lags shorelines tides tourist destinations tropical shores washover fans waves wind wrack lines |
ISBN |
1-283-27801-4
9786613278012 0-520-94894-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. The global character of beaches -- pt. 2. How to read a beach -- pt. 3. The global threat to beaches. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781493003321 |
Pilkey Orrin H. <1934-> | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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