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Coasts under stress : restructuring and social-ecological health /

Rosemary Ommer and her project team combine formal scientific (natural and social) and humanist analysis with an examination of the lived experience of coastal people. They analyze community erosion created by economic decline and the ecosystem damage caused by unrelenting industrial pressure on nat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ommer, Rosemary (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: Coasts Under Stress (Project)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2007
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Rosemary Ommer and her project team combine formal scientific (natural and social) and humanist analysis with an examination of the lived experience of coastal people. They analyze community erosion created by economic decline and the ecosystem damage caused by unrelenting industrial pressure on natural resources and look at the history of coastal communities, their resource bases, their economies, and the way the lives of people are embedded in their environments.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvii, 574 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 503-554) and index.
ISBN:9780773576018
0773576010
1282866486
9781282866485
9786612866487
6612866489