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"The Last Beach is an urgent call to save the world's beaches while there is still time. The geologists Orrin H. Pilkey and J. Andrew G. Cooper sound the alarm in this frank assessment of our current relationship with beaches and their grim future if we do not change the way we understand...
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Duke University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Durham : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"The Last Beach is an urgent call to save the world's beaches while there is still time. The geologists Orrin H. Pilkey and J. Andrew G. Cooper sound the alarm in this frank assessment of our current relationship with beaches and their grim future if we do not change the way we understand and treat our irreplaceable shores. Combining case studies and anecdotes from around the world, they argue that many of the world's developed beaches, including some in Florida and in Spain, are virtually doomed and that we must act immediately to save imperiled beaches. After explaining beaches as dynamic |
| Carrier Form: | xviii, 237 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-232) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780822357988 0822357984 9780822358091 0822358093 |
| Index Number: | GB451 |
| CLC: | Q178.531 |
| Call Number: | Q178.531/P639 |
| Contents: | The end is nigh! -- Selling the family silver : beach-sand mining -- Indefensible : hard structures on soft sand -- Patch-up jobs : beach replenishment -- The plastisphere : trash on the beach -- Tar balls and magic pipes -- Stuck in a rut : driving on the beach -- The enemy within : beach pollution -- The international dimension of beach destruction -- The end is here. |