The Beaches Are Moving: The Drowning of America's Shoreline
- ISBN-10
- 0822305747
- ISBN-13
- 9780822305743
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1983
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Authors
- Orrin H. Pilkey, Wallace Kaufman
Description
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.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 1983-01-01
- 352 pages
- Ebook
- Duke University Press
Similar books
-
How to Read a North Carolina Beach: Bubble Holes, Barking Sands, and Rippled Runnels
By Orrin H. Pilkey, William J. Neal, Tracy Monegan RiceBubble Holes, Barking Sands, and Rippled Runnels Orrin H. Pilkey, Tracy Monegan Rice, William J. Neal. The constant renewal of the beach reflects the constant evolution of the sea's equilibrium with the shore. The wind generates waves ...
-
The Last Beach
By Orrin H. Pilkey Jr., J. Andrew G. CooperThe Last Beach is an urgent call to save the world's beaches while there is still time.
-
Retreat from a Rising Sea: Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change
By Orrin H. Pilkey, Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, Keith C. PilkeyThis policy-oriented book then lays out the drastic actions we must take now to remove vulnerable populations.
-
On the Beach
By Nevil Shute"The most shocking fiction I have read in years. What is shocking about it is both the idea and the sheer imaginative brilliance with which Mr. Shute brings it off.
-
How to Read a North Carolina Beach: Bubble Holes, Barking Sands, and Rippled Runnels
By Orrin H. Pilkey, William J. Neal, Tracy Monegan RiceThree leading coastal geologists provide a guidebook to North Carolina beach characteristics created specifically to enhance trips to the beach for tourists and residents. Original.
-
Sandy Beach Morphodynamics
By Derek Jackson, Andrew ShortSandy Beach Morphodynamics brings together the latest research on beach systems and their morphodynamics and the ways in which they are studied in 29 chapters that review the full spectrum of beach morphodynamics.
-
The Beach
By Alex GarlandThe irresistible novel that was adapted into a major motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
-
Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier,...
By Wallace J. NicholsWhy does being near water set our minds and bodies at ease? In Blue Mind, Wallace J. Nichols revolutionizes how we think about these questions, revealing the remarkable truth about the benefits of being in, on, under, or simply near water.
-
Florida's Living Beaches: A Guide for the Curious Beachcomber
By Blair WitheringtonThe first edition of Florida's Living Beaches (2007) was widely praised.
-
The Battle for North Carolina's Coast: Evolutionary History, Present Crisis, and Vision for the Future
By Stanley R. Riggs, Dorothea V. Ames, Stephen J. CulverEvolutionary History, Present Crisis, and Vision for the Future Stanley R. Riggs, Dorothea von der Porten Ames, Stephen J. Culver, David J. Mallinson. Dolan, R. 1971. Coastal landforms, crescentic and rhythmic. geological Society of ...