The Beaches Are Moving: The Drowning of America’s Shoreline (Living with the Shore) - Softcover

Kaufman, Wallace

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822305747 ISBN 13: 9780822305743

Verlag: Duke University Press, 1984

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Book by Kaufman Wallace Pilkey Deborah F

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"[T]he definitive work describing the dynamics of barrier islands--and the futility of trying to stabilize them." --Richard Hart, Independent Weekly

Reseña del editor:

Our beaches are eroding, sinking, washing out right under our houses, hotels, bridges; vacation dreamlands become nightmare scenes of futile revetments, fills, groins, what have you-all thrown up in a frantic defense against the natural system. The romantic desire to live on the seashore is in doomed conflict with an age-old pattern of beach migration. Yet it need not be so. Conservationist Wallace Kaufman teams up with marine geologist Orrin H. Pilkey Jr., in an evaluation of America's beaches from coast to coast, giving sound advice on how to judge a safe beach development from a dangerous one and how to live at the shore sensibly and safely.

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• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0822305747
• ISBN 13: 9780822305743
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352