Info
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 |
| 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 | ||
| ||
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 |
| 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 | ||
| ||
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
| 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 | ||
| ||
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
| 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 | ||
| ||