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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
| 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 |
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| New York, [New York] : , : Columbia University Press, , 2016 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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
| 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 |
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Pilkey Orrin H.
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| Durham : , : Duke University Press, , [2022] | ||
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| 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
| 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 |
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Pilkey Orrin H.
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| Durham : , : Duke University Press, , [2022] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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