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In the Shadow of the Seawall

Author : Summer Gray
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520392736
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of the Seawall written by Summer Gray and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the Shadow of the Seawall journeys to the edge of the sea to understand the existential dilemma of seawalls alongside struggles for resilience and adaptation. In coastal management debates, seawalls are a deeply contested subject between those in favor of hard structures for mitigating the impacts of sea change and those who advocate measures modeled on natural processes. Summer Gray argues that both approaches involve limited notions of resilience that undermine movements for social and climate justice, and introduces the concept of placekeeping-the struggle to resist colonizing practices of displacement-as a justice-oriented framework for addressing the global dangers of coastal disruption. Drawing on a mix of ethnographic observation, interviews, and archival research, Gray shows how competing logics of adaptation play out on the ground in Guyana and the Maldives-to reveal how seawalls are entrenched in relationships of power and entangled in processes of making and keeping place"--

In the Shadow of the Seawall

Author : Summer Gray
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520392744
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of the Seawall written by Summer Gray and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the Shadow of the Seawall journeys to the edge of the sea to understand the existential dilemma of seawalls alongside struggles for resilience and adaptation. In coastal management debates, seawalls are a deeply contested subject between those in favor of hard structures for mitigating the impacts of sea change and those who advocate measures modeled on natural processes. Summer Gray argues that both approaches involve limited notions of resilience that undermine movements for social and climate justice, and introduces the concept of placekeeping-the struggle to resist colonizing practices of displacement-as a justice-oriented framework for addressing the global dangers of coastal disruption. Drawing on a mix of ethnographic observation, interviews, and archival research, Gray shows how competing logics of adaptation play out on the ground in Guyana and the Maldives-to reveal how seawalls are entrenched in relationships of power and entangled in processes of making and keeping place"--

Saving America's Beaches

Author : Scott L. Douglass
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789812776907
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (769 download)

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Download or read book Saving America's Beaches written by Scott L. Douglass and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2002 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells you where beach sand comes from, how waves are formed and how they break and move sand down the coast, how OC works of manOCO have blocked this movement and caused beach erosion, and what can be done to save the beaches for future generations of Americans. A three-part prescription for healthy beaches is proposed: OC backing offOCO, OC bypassing sandOCO, and OC beach nourishmentOCO. So if you love waves and beaches, and care about the future of your favorite beach spot, then read this book while you enjoy the beach."

McClure's Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 914 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book McClure's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Beach Book

Author : Carl Hobbs
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231504136
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Beach Book written by Carl Hobbs and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waves and tides, wind and storms, sea-level rise and shore erosion: these are the forces that shape our beaches, and beach lovers of all stripes can benefit from learning more about how these coastal processes work. With animation and clarity, The Beach Book tells sunbathers why beaches widen and narrow, and helps boaters and anglers understand why tidal inlets migrate. It gives home buyers insight into erosion rates and provides natural-resource managers and interested citizens with rich information on beach nourishment and coastal-zone development. And for all of us concerned about the long-term health of our beaches, it outlines the latest scientific information on sea-level rise and introduces ways to combat not only the erosion of beaches but also the decline of other coastal habitats. The more we learn about coastline formation and maintenance, Carl Hobbs argues, the better we can appreciate and cultivate our shores. Informed by the latest research and infused with a passion for its subject, The Beach Book provides a wide-ranging introduction to the shore, and all of us who love the beach and its associated environments will find it timely and useful.

Symbols from the Sea, Or, The Port, the Pilot, and the Passage

Author : W. H. Burton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Symbols from the Sea, Or, The Port, the Pilot, and the Passage written by W. H. Burton and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rudder

Author : Thomas Fleming Day
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Rudder written by Thomas Fleming Day and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Traveling the Shore of the Spanish Sea

Author : Geoff Winningham
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603441611
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Traveling the Shore of the Spanish Sea written by Geoff Winningham and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a work of sweeping breadth and beauty, Geoff Winningham has created a profusely illustrated, contemplative travel journal that showcases his talent as both a photographer and a writer and reveals his affection and respect for the two countries he calls home. In 2003, photographer Geoff Winningham saw for the first time both the southern coast of Veracruz, with its volcanoes, rain forests, and steep mountains, and the Texas coast near High Island, where the land seems to stretch endlessly, covered by a sea of salt grass. He decided that these two visually striking areas could be the beginning and end points of a photographic study that would also engage the two cultures in which he had lived for twenty years, the U.S. and Mexico. Now, seven years and more than a hundred trips later, Traveling the Shore of the Spanish Sea: The Gulf Coast of Texas and Mexico is the result. In this beautifully illustrated and engagingly written book, Winningham also considers the role that the Gulf of Mexico played in the discovery and exploration of the New World. Winningham's journey begins east of High Island, in Port Arthur, where the images suggest a cautionary tale relating to the oil industry and the land. It ends twelve hundred miles down the coast at the end of an old, stone road in tropical terrain of almost indescribable beauty, overlooking the sea. In between, more than two hundred photographs include natural landscapes (ranging from unspoiled to completely despoiled), roadside architecture and signage, and images of people Winningham met. As he attempts to come to terms with the disturbing changes he witnessed to the coastal environment, the book also contains elements of a poignant, personal lament for what is being lost. Traveling the Shore of the Spanish Sea: The Gulf Coast of Texas and Mexico will delight and enchant readers with its deeply felt personal narrative and the power and beauty of its images.

Appendix VI Humbold Bay (Buhne Point), Calif., Beach Erosion Control Study

Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Worlds in Shadow

Author : Patrick Nunn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472983491
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Worlds in Shadow written by Patrick Nunn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover ancient civilizations that have disappeared beneath the ocean's surface and explore how the science of submergence adds to our knowledge of human history. The traces of much of human history – and that which preceded it – lie beneath the ocean surface; broken up, dispersed, often buried and always mysterious. This is fertile ground for speculation, even myth-making, but also a topic on which geologists and climatologists have increasingly focused in recent decades. We now know enough to tell the true story of some of the continents and islands that have disappeared throughout Earth's history, to explain how and why such things happened, and to unravel the effects of submergence on the rise and fall of human civilizations. In Worlds in Shadow Patrick Nunn sifts the facts from the fiction, using the most up-to-date research to work out which submerged places may have actually existed versus those that probably only exist in myth. He looks at the descriptions of recently drowned lands that have been well documented, those that are plausible, and those that almost certainly didn't exist. Going even further back, Patrick examines the presence of more ancient lands, submerged beneath the waves in a time that even the longest-reaching folk memory can't touch. Such places may have played important roles in human evolution, but can only be reconstructed through careful geological detective work. Exploring how lands become submerged, whether from sea-level changes, tectonic changes, gravity collapse, giant waves or volcanoes, helps us determine why, when and where land may disappear in the future, and what might be done to prevent it.

Beach and Nearshore Processes in Southeastern Florida

Author : Allan E. DeWall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Beach and Nearshore Processes in Southeastern Florida written by Allan E. DeWall and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 4.5-year series of daily and weekly littoral environment observations and beach profile surveys was made at 3 localities in Southeastern Florida. As a result of varying protection by the Bahamas Banks, the amount of wave energy reaching the shoreline decreases from north to south. Mean annual breaker height decreases from a maximum of 2.8 ft at Jupiter on the north to a minimum of 1.6 ft at Hollywood on the south. A pronounced seasonal variation is evident with waves and currents from the southeasterly sector dominating during April through September. Monthly averages of breaker height and period data were the same for a 4.5-year set of daily observations and a subset of weekly observations. Potential gross longshore transport rates, estimated using these wave data, ranged from 2,300,000 cu yd/yr at Jupiter to 400,000 cu yd/yr at Hollywood. The magnitude of beach changes decreased from north to south and was low compared to changes on more exposed beaches on the U.S. east coast. Contributing factors include the sheltering effect of the Bahamas Banks, the lack of significant storms, and the underlying coquina limestone which characteristically crops out just below the MSL shoreline at the two sites with the highest waves, forming a protective reef that effectively retards beach erosion.

Wallops Flight Facility Shoreline Restoration and Infrastructure Protection Program

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Wallops Flight Facility Shoreline Restoration and Infrastructure Protection Program written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Telling Our Way to the Sea

Author : Aaron Hirsh
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429947934
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Telling Our Way to the Sea written by Aaron Hirsh and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A luminous and revelatory journey into the science of life and the depths of the human experience By turns epic and intimate, Telling Our Way to the Sea is both a staggering revelation of unraveling ecosystems and a profound meditation on our changing relationships with nature—and with one another. When the biologists Aaron Hirsh and Veronica Volny, along with their friend Graham Burnett, a historian of science, lead twelve college students to a remote fishing village on the Sea of Cortez, they come upon a bay of dazzling beauty and richness. But as the group pursues various threads of investigation—ecological and evolutionary studies of the sea, the desert, and their various species of animals and plants; the stories of local villagers; the journals of conquistadors and explorers—they recognize that the bay, spectacular and pristine though it seems, is but a ghost of what it once was. Life in the Sea of Cortez, they realize, has been reshaped by complex human ideas and decisions—the laws and economics of fishing, property, and water; the dreams of developers and the fantasies of tourists seeking the wild; even efforts to retrieve species from the brink of extinction—all of which have caused dramatic upheavals in the ecosystem. It is a painful realization, but the students discover a way forward. After weathering a hurricane and encountering a rare whale in its wake, they come to see that the bay's best chance of recovery may in fact reside in our own human stories, which can weave a compelling memory of the place. Glimpsing the intricate and ever-shifting web of human connections with the Sea of Cortez, the students comprehend anew their own place in the natural world—suspended between past and future, teetering between abundance and loss. The redemption in their difficult realization is that as they find their places in a profoundly altered environment, they also recognize their roles in the path ahead, and ultimately come to see one another, and themselves, in a new light. In Telling Our Way to the Sea, Hirsh's voice resounds with compassionate humanity, capturing the complex beauty of both the marine world he explores and the people he explores it with. Vibrantly alive with sensitivity and nuance, Telling Our Way to the Sea transcends its genre to become literature.

Merchant Vessels of the United States...

Author : United States. Coast Guard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Merchant Vessels of the United States... written by United States. Coast Guard and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 1360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Corps and the Shore

Author :
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610913973
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book The Corps and the Shore written by and published by Island Press. This book was released on with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been building fortifications along the American coastline in an effort to protect our vulnerable shores. With the prospect of seaborne invasion becoming increasingly unlikely, the Corps has turned its attention to a more subtle but no less dangerous threat: the insidious effects of coastal erosion.In "The Corps and the Shore," Orrin H. Pilkey, the nation's most outspoken coastal geologist, and Katharine L. Dixon, an educator and activist for national coastal policy reform, provide a comprehensive examination of the impact of coastal processes on developed areas and the ways in which the Corps of Engineers has attempted to manage erosion along America's coastline.Through detailed case studies of large-scale projects in Texas, Maine, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and South Carolina, the authors demonstrate the shortcomings of the Corps's underlying assumptions and methodology. As they discuss the role of local citizens in the project process, they highlight the interaction between local Corps offices and community officials and residents. By focusing on different types of problems in various regions of the country, Pilkey and Dixon clearly show how the Corps has repeatedly failed to act in the best interest of those most affected by the projects. As well as criticizing Corps practices, the authors provide numerous suggestions for reforming the Corps and making it both more scientifically accountable and more accountable to the citizens it is intended to serve."The Corps and the Shore" is essential reading for coastal residents, environmentalists, planners, and coastal city officials as well as geologists, civil engineers, marine scientists, and anyone concerned with the impact of human society on our shorelines.

Symbols from the Sea; Or The Port, the Pilot, and the Passage

Author : William Henry Burton (Baptist Minister.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Symbols from the Sea; Or The Port, the Pilot, and the Passage written by William Henry Burton (Baptist Minister.) and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Shadow Academy

Author : Adrian Cole
Publisher : EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1770530657
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Shadow Academy written by Adrian Cole and published by EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world no more than a whisper away from our own, the Islands of Grand Britannia have been reduced by the ancient Plague Wars to a land of deep forests and a handful of small cities, governed by a powerful totalitarian Authority, based in the central city of Londonborough. Chad Mundy, a young teacher is sent to the remote city of Petra Dumnoniorum, to replace a colleague believed to have committed suicide. It soon becomes evident that there are darker, more sinister secrets locked up in the claustrophobic world of the Academy. As Mundy unravels the treachery and deceits behind the Authority, himself threatened and ultimately hunted by the ruthless Enforcer, Deadspike, the world of the dissident pagans and their hopes for freedom are cruelly tested. Events rush towards a fateful confrontation between the totalitarian Authority and the insurgents, culminating at the Midsummer festival and coinciding with a storm that will ultimately lead to tragedy.