Orrin H Pilkey, Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, Keith C Pilkey

Broschiertes Buch

Retreat from a Rising Sea

Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change

Beschreibung

This big-picture, policy-oriented book explains in gripping terms what rising oceans will do to coastal cities and the drastic actions we need to take now to remove vulnerable populations. The authors detail effective approaches for addressing climate-change denialism and powerful arguments for changing U.S. federal coastal-management policies.

Autor

Orrin H. Pilkey is James B. Duke Professor Emeritus, Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, at Duke University. His books include A Celebration of the World's Barrier Islands and Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future. Linda Pilkey-Jarvis is a geologist at the Washington State Department of Ecology, where she helps manage the state's oil-spills program. She is the coauthor, with Orrin H. Pilkey, of Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future. Keith C. Pilkey is an administrative law judge with the Social Security Administration. He has an undergraduate degree from Appalachian State University and a juris doctor from Wake Forest University School of Law. He is coauthor, with Orrin H. Pilkey, of Global Climate Change: A Primer.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 144mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 344g
• ISBN-13: 9780231168458
• ISBN-10: 0231168454
• Artikelnr.: 48096504