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The Last Beach - Orrin H. Pilkey, J. Andrew G. Cooper

The Last Beach

Buch | Hardcover
256 Seiten
2014
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-5798-8 (ISBN)
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The geologists Orrin H. Pilkey and J. Andrew G. Cooper sound the alarm in this frank assessment of our current relationship with beaches and the grim future if we do not change the way we understand and treat our irreplaceable shores.
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 ecosystems, Pilkey and Cooper assess the harm done by dense oceanfront development accompanied by the construction of massive seawalls to protect new buildings from a shoreline that encroaches as sea levels rise. They discuss the toll taken by sand mining, trash that washes up on beaches, and pollution, which has contaminated not only the water but also, surprisingly, the sand. Acknowledging the challenge of reconciling our actions with our love of beaches, the geologists offer suggestions for reversing course, insisting that given the space, beaches can take care of themselves and provide us with multiple benefits.

Orrin H. Pilkey, deemed "America’s foremost philosopher of the beaches," by the New York Times, is James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Geology at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. Pilkey is a coauthor (with Keith C. Pilkey) of Global Climate Change: A Primer, published by Duke University Press, and of twenty books in the Press's Living with the Shore series, edited by Pilkey and William J. Neal. In 2013, The Orrin Pilkey Marine Science and Conservation Genetics Center opened at the Duke Marine Lab in Beaufort, North Carolina. Pilkey lives in Hillsborough, N.C. J. Andrew G. Cooper is Professor of Coastal Studies in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Ulster. He and Pilkey are coauthors (with William J. Neal and Joseph T. Kelley) of The World's Beaches: A Global Guide to the Science of the Shoreline and coeditors of Pitfalls of Shoreline Stabilization. Well known for his advocacy of nonintervention on shorelines and his work on beaches and coasts worldwide, Cooper lives in the town of Coleraine in Northern Ireland.

Foreword vii

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xvii

1. The End is Nigh! 1

2. Selling the Family Silver: Beach-Sand Mining 24

3. Indefensible: Hard Structures on Soft Sand 41

4. Patch-up Jobs: Beach Replinishment 70

5. The Plastisphere: Trash on the Beach 95

6. Tar Balls and Magic Pipes 107

7. Stuck in a Rut: Driving on the Beach 123

8. The Enemy Within: Beach Pollution 139

9. The International Dimension of Beach Destruction 160

10. The End is Here 175

Appendix 1 199

Appendix 2 203

Bibliography 207

Index 233

Zusatzinfo 70 illustrations
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 254 mm
Gewicht 726 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Naturführer
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
ISBN-10 0-8223-5798-4 / 0822357984
ISBN-13 978-0-8223-5798-8 / 9780822357988
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