Orrin H Pilkey, Norma J Longo, William J Neal, Nelson G Rangel-Buitrago, Keith C Pilkey, Hannah L Hayes

Gebundenes Buch

Vanishing Sands

Losing Beaches to Mining

Beschreibung

Travelling from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean to South America and the eastern United States, the authors of Vanishing Sands track the devastating environmental, social, and economic impact of legal and illegal sand mining over the past twenty years.

Autor

Orrin H. Pilkey is Emeritus James B. Duke Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences at Duke University and the author and coauthor of many books. Norma J. Longo, a geologist and photographer, is coauthor with Pilkey of several books on coastal issues. William J. Neal, Emeritus Professor of Geology at Grand Valley State University, is an expert on ocean and Great Lakes shoreline evolution and coauthor of many books with Pilkey. Nelson G. Rangel-Buitrago is Professor in the Geology, Geophysics, and Marine-Research Group at the Universidad del AtlÁntico, Barranquilla, Colombia, and a prolific author of coastal science studies. Keith C. Pilkey, an attorney concerned with legal issues of coastal development, is coauthor of two books about sea level rise. Hannah L. Hayes is a scholar of changing land rights, disaster capitalism, and risk management in Barbuda and Fiji.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 263mm x 184mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9781478016168
• ISBN-10: 1478016167
• Artikelnr.: 63241093