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Author Pilkey, Orrin H., 1934- author.

Title The last beach / Orrin H. Pilkey and J. Andrew G. Cooper
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 237 pages) : illustrations
Contents The end is nigh! -- Selling the family silver : beach-sand mining -- Indefensible : hard structures on soft sand -- Patch-up jobs : beach replenishment -- The plastisphere : trash on the beach -- Tar balls and magic pipes -- Stuck in a rut : driving on the beach -- The enemy within : beach pollution -- The international dimension of beach destruction -- The end is here
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Beaches -- Environmental aspects
Seashore ecology.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Beaches -- Environmental aspects.
Seashore ecology.
Form Electronic book
Author Cooper, J. A. G., author.
LC no. 2014015437
ISBN 9780822375944
082237594X