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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal [Que.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2007
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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. |
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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 |