The Beaches are Moving
Synopsis
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 a dangerous one and how to live at the shore sensibly and safely.
- Derechos de autor:
- 1983 Wallace Kaufman, Jr. Orrin H. Pilkey
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- ISBN-13:
- 9780822382942
- Publisher:
- Duke University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 2013-11-01T09:47:44Z
- Idioma:
- English
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- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.