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Cargando... Beaches Are Movingpor Wallace Kaufman, Orrin H. Pilkey
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A superb popular introduction to the geology of beaches and barrier islands and the complexities of coastal zone management. Its central thesis--that beaches are dynamic systems that we try to hold in place (and build on) at our peril--is both enormously important and (still) widely ignored. I read it (borrowed from the Geology Library) while in grad school, and acquired my own copy some years later. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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