Pilkey / Cooper The Last Beach

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7594-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pilkey, Orrin H.

Cooper, J. Andrew G.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Marine Geologie, Ozeanographie (Meereskunde)
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.