Superstorm Sandy : the inevitable destruction and reconstruction of the Jersey Shore /
Why do people build in areas open to repeated natural disasters? Drawing on a variety of insights from environmental sociology, Superstorm Sandy offers a wide-ranging look at the Jersey Shore both before and after this disaster, examining the many factors--such as cultural attachment, tourism revenu...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2016]
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Colección: | Nature, society, and culture.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: down the shore, (not) everything's all right
- The inevitable Sandy
- The shore of memories
- Shore resorts
- The suburban shore
- Government, bureaucracy, and technical fixes
- Restoring security at the shore.