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The Beaches Are Moving : The Drowning of America's Shoreline /
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 doom...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Durham, N.C. :
Duke University Press,
1983.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Kaufman, Wallace, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Beaches Are Moving : |b The Drowning of America's Shoreline / |c Wallace Kaufman and Orrin H. Pilkey, Jr. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Durham, N.C. : |b Duke University Press, |c 1983. | |
| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2020 | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©1983. | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (352 pages): |b illustrations | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a online resource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 490 | 0 | |a Living with the shore | |
| 500 | |a "Seventh paperback printing, 1998." | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a The Beaches Are Moving -- Who's Afraid of Sea Level? -- The Beaches Are Made of Continents -- Energy: Winds, Waves, and rides -- The Beach Is Four Miles Wide -- Barrier Islands: Let the Lighthouse Fall -- The Human Nature of Natural Disaster -- The Will to Power: An Old World Heritage -- Sand Castles and Supermen -- Engineered Shorelines: The Point of No Return -- Who Owns the Beaches? -- How to Live with a Beach -- Epilogue: It's Not All Over Now -- Checklist for Buying or Building on the Beach -- Where to See the Beaches Moving -- Bibliography of Useful Reference. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a Coast changes. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00865699 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Beaches. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00829107 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |x Real Estate |x General. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Littoral |x Modifications |z États-Unis. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Plages |z États-Unis. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Coast changes |z United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Beaches |z United States. | |
| 651 | 7 | |a United States. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 | |
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| 700 | 1 | |a Pilkey, Orrin H., |d 1934- |e author. | |
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