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Coast lines : how mapmakers frame the world and chart environmental change /
In the next century, sea levels are predicted to rise at unprecedented rates, causing flooding around the world, from the islands of Malaysia and the canals of Venice to the coasts of Florida and California. These rising water levels pose serious challenges to all aspects of coastal existence--chief...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Depiction and measurement
- Definitions and delineations
- New worlds and fictitious islands
- Triangles and topography
- Overhead imaging
- Electronic charts and precise positioning
- Global shorelines
- Baselines and offshore borders
- Calibrating catastrophe
- Rising seas, eroding surge
- Close-ups and complexity.