The Beaches Are Moving
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The Beaches Are Moving

The Drowning of America's Shoreline

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Beaches Are Moving

The Drowning of America's Shoreline

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access The Beaches Are Moving by Wallace Kaufman,Orrin H. Pilkey, William J. Neal in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Business & Real Estate. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Prologue
  3. 1 The Beaches Are Moving
  4. 2 Who’s Afraid of Sea Level?
  5. 3 The Beaches Are Made of Continents
  6. 4 Energy: Winds, Waves, and Tides
  7. 5 The Beach Is Four Miles Wide
  8. 6 Barrier Islands: Let the Lighthouse Fall
  9. 7 The Human Nature of Natural Disaster
  10. 8 The Will to Power: An Old World Heritage
  11. 9 Sand Castles and Supermen
  12. 10 Engineered Shorelines: The Point of No Return
  13. 11 Who Owns the Beaches?
  14. 12 How to Live with a Beach
  15. Epilogue: It’s Not All Over Now
  16. Checklist for Buying or Building on the Beach
  17. Where to See the Beaches Moving
  18. Bibliography of Useful References
  19. Index